1. Set TAPEDEV in your onconfig.servername file to say /tmp/backup.bak
2. touch /tmp/backup.bak;chown informix:informix /tmp/backup.bak; chmod 660 /tmp/backup.bak
3. ontape -s -L 0
4. Copy /tmp/backup.bak to the target machine
5. Ensure the target machine is offline
6. ontape -r on the target machine