Re: Samba and 10g - and NT

If I am recalling the correct conversation from Birmingham, the challenge is to migrate from 9.2 on NT4 to Linux with minimal downtime? That is the real aim is to change OS platform, rather than necessarily the DB version.

Am I recalling all this correctly?

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:48:15 +0100, Eric Buddelmeijer <eric.buddelmeijer_at_elegant.nl> wrote:
> Why mix OS's? Why not running oracle on your linux box? What IS your
> strategy? What are you importing when you get corrupt data blocks? This
> being the (somewhat) longer version of the answer to your 'rethink strategy'
> question.
>
> Eric.
>
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> Onderwerp: RE: Samba and 10g - and NT
>
>
>
> Sorry to be unclear but ..
> No I'm not using samba to transport files I have an Oracle 9 instance =
> running on NT=20 that has its dbf files hosted on linux via Samba
>
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> Subject: RE: Samba and 10g - and NT
>
> I think you missed the upgrade to 10G. I believe the rman files in 10G = are
> transportable (and usable) over different operating systems. In 9.2 they =
> are not. And although you use samba for transporting files, oracle knows =
> nothing about that and creates NT-files when you make a backup and tries to
> read Linux files when restoring the database.=20 If you do upgrade to 10G,
> you can also use transportable tablespaces = which are transportable over
> operating systems (only in 10, not in 9.2) if the tablespaces are 'self
> contained'. See
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week16_10gdba.html =
> for a first look on the TTS feature.
>
> Maybe the answer to your last question is yes, rethink ;-).
>
> Eric Buddelmeijer.
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