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Re: Cloning DB to different UNIX platform

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:22:15 +1000
Message-ID: <3d5ff39a@dnews.tpgi.com.au>


No you can't just copy datafiles from one platform to another.

Both proposed platforms being 'Unix-like' is not sufficient.

You have to worry about things like big-endian and little-endian, platform-specific structures, and so forth.

Regards
HJR "Rick Denoire" <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote in message news:mvkvlucpjj0bkraa1illdsh8rdfb9b2u4o_at_4ax.com...
> Hello
>
> Can I just move the DB files from Solaris (SPARC CPU) to Linux (Intel
> CPU) and recreate the control file in order to clone the DB? Since
> both are UNIX like operating systems, but otherwise totally different
> platforms, I am wondering if this would work before trying.
>
> Of course, I also could go through export/import, but this is not
> adequate to "copy" a complete DB, and it is prone to errors.
>
> Bye
> Rick
>
Received on Sun Aug 18 2002 - 14:22:15 CDT

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