Re: Moving an existing Solaris Ora 7.3.3 installation to another server

From: DET <none_at_i_hate_spammers.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:13:29 -0700
Message-ID: <6udnc8$jpm@netaxs.com>

have never tried it, but this is my understanding:

If you shut down oracle completely, and copy the files to another machine with exactly the same directory tree structure, it should work.

look up "alter database rename file..."

Anyway, if you've got a second machine, give it a try - you'll still have the original instance.

If the directory tree structure is to be different, you will have to rename the datafiles (
Melissa A. Marquis wrote in message <36096A7F.4A985ABF_at_i-kinetics.com>...
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>I write this as an Oracle newbee.
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>Can I move an existing installation on to another server of the same
>make, change some config
>files that have hostnames in them like tnsnames.ora, etc. and run it?
>Note: system vars for things like
>semaphores have been set up to be identitical on the new system.
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>Any and all suggestions welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>Melissa
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Received on Thu Sep 24 1998 - 10:13:29 CDT