Porting a VLDB to a different platform (quickly)?

Fellow users,

I'm looking into moving a ~200Gb Oracle instance onto a hot new platform. The new machine comes from a different manufacturer than the old one, and uses a much different architecture.

Exports run very slowly on the old server. Based on tests that I've done, I expect that the Export/Import route would take at least 5 months.

My manager doesn't seem willing to accept that kind of timeframe:(

Can somebody here draw upon his/her experience and suggest an alternative strategy? I hope to shorten the timeline significantly, if possible.

For example, I'm beginning to consider 3rd-party backup/recovery tools. Does anyone here have experience using such products to move from one platform to another?

I look forward to seeing any suggestions you may have.

doid

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