You may want to review an article, "Cross Platform Migration of a Large Production
Database", in
the latest issue(2nd Qtr 2003) of SELECT journal (by IOUG).
The author details the procedure he followed to migrtate a 300GB production database
from HP-UX to
IBM AIX.
- Kirti
- "Goulet, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Exp/imp of a 200GB database is possible, but I'd think the time required would be
> the long pole
> in the tent. I'd say your looking at at least a 4 day weekend at best and only if
> you used
> direct mode. Someone has hinted that you can simply move the datafiles from one box
> to the
> other. Well I'd not loose the original system before you prove that. My experience
> with
> database file from Solaris to HP-UX has been a 100% loss of data. Granted that was
> on a much
> earlier version of Oracle (6.0.x).
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
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> ..
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> We are considering migration of an Oracle eBusiness Suite 11.5.8 from
> HP-UX 11.0 to Solaris9.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone has done this and how daunting the task is.
>
> Are there any 3rd Party tools which can help out?
>
> Coming to the conventional approaches:
>
> 1. What do you think of Export/Import of a 200 GB database?
> 1a. How much time will it take?
> 1b. Any strategies for cutting that down?
>
> 2. How does CTAS over dblink compare to Export/Import?
>
> 3. Is there any tool that converts Oracle datafiles on HP-UX 11.0 to
> Oracle datafiles on Solaris 9. If so we would just need to recreate the
> control files on the target database and we are done.
>
> Any suggestions, pointers, words of wisdom are greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sashi
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