cpio is very fast for copying files.
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Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
<erwinrm_at_geocities.com> wrote in message news:947trd$3sa$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> What's the quickest way to make a copy an Oracle 8.1.6 database that's
> about 65GB? The database is running on Solaris 2.6 in a Sun Enterprise
> server. The copy is to be a development database in another Sun box.
>
> Ftp'ing the files takes about 1GB/minute, which makes downtime over an
> hour. Exp/imp runs up to 12 hours. Any other ways to go about this?
> tools?
>
> Tia,
> Erwin
>
>
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Received on Fri Jan 19 2001 - 10:29:23 CST
