Re: Copying a DB from NT to Linux occurs a ORA-01516

"Bonjour" from Paris,

According French Oracle Online Support, coping Oracle files from one host to another and particular when the OS are differents is not supported.

Use import/export.

"Au revoir" from Paris

Christophe Brault

Falko Rotter a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> we want to copy a oracle 8.1.6 win nt database to
> a oracle 8.1.7 on suse linux 7.2
>
> we copied all files on the linux server and mounted
> the database successfully with "startup mount" in the
> server manager.
>
> now we want to rename the datafiles with
> --> alter database rename file 'N:\DATABASE_DEV\SYS1DEV.ORA' to
> '/usr/local/database_dev/SYS1DEV.ORA'
> but the server manager occours the error
>
> ORA-01511: error in renaming log/datafile
> ORA-01516: Non existent log/datafile 'N:\DATABASE_DEV\SYS1DEV.ORA'
>
> what's the reason for this ? the filename is written correctly.
> (rename succeed under nt with the same syntax)
>
> Regards,
> Falko Rotter
>
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Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 08:20:23 CDT