Moving a user database with vendor database tools

Complete the following tasks before moving a user database:

1. Create an empty database in the new location using your vendor tool. You can create Microsoft™ Access databases with the Designer. To create other supported databases, you must use the database vendor tools. See the help section Vendor databases.
2. Instruct all users to log off from the databases. New users cannot access the databases while you are moving the user database, but users who are currently logged in when the process begins cannot be detected or logged off. Some supported databases provide a tool for logging users off the database. Determine whether your database vendor has such a tool.
3. Back up all HCL Compass databases, even if you are moving only one user database. Backups prevent data loss due to unforeseen circumstances, such as network failure, that might occur during the move.