Re: Moving Database from NT -> AIX

I don't beleive you can do that. You'll have to upload an export file in binary mode and reload your db using that file.

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<sherwin_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:820t89$kca$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to move all the relevant files for an Oracle 7.3.4.4
> instance from NT4 to AIX4 and, with a bit of path tweaking, get it to
> run? The reason i ask is that i have tried the above, but get the
> following errors when I try and do anything that involves accessing
> control files or data files:
>
> ORA-01565: error in identifying file '/a02/oradata/resd/*******' -
> (always sees the correct file)
>
> ORA-07366: sfifi: invalid file, file does not have valid header block.
>
> This would seem to imply that my NT files are the wrong format for AIX.
> Can anyone confirm/deny this?
>
>
> Ta
>
> Sherwin
>
>
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Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 10:34:51 CST