Re: Moving a Oracle installation from one box to another.

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:00:58 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns933BA2ED22448pingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

"Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in news:v6sq0jf7291m57 @corp.supernews.com:

> I disagree. We moved 12 databases from one server to another on Friday
> in about eight hours.
>
> [ advocates using O/S commands to move Instances from one box to
> another ]

I've moved some very large Instances (500G) using O/S utilities (dd/cp) with no problems. It didn't matter that the data devices were on raw devices -- dd is your pal! :)

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Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 17:00:58 CST