Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!uunet.MISMATCH!ash.uu.net!newspeer.radix.net!news.er.usgs.gov!news From: Brian Peasland Subject: Re: SGI ==> Solaris cloning - any known issues? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: edcxpw014.cr.usgs.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <4055D8E6.80DBAB64@remove_spam.peasland.com> Sender: news@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov (Janet Walz (GD) x6739) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA X-Accept-Language: en References: <480f610.0403150816.2a84a530@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:25:10 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Lines: 36 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:257221 Jared wrote: > > Hi all, > > I checked on Metalink and didn't see anything, but I thought I would > check with the real world as well. I am looking to clone a 100+GB > 8.1.7.2 db from Irix 6.5 to Solaris 8. Has anyone done this? Is > anyone aware of particular issues to look out for? I have cloned db's > (with and without RMAN) many times, but rarely cross-platform as it's > usually considered a Bad Idea. > > TIA - > > Kind regards, > jh It all depends on how you want to clone the database. The database datafiles on your SGI system will not work when copied to Solaris. So you'll have to use a platform-independent method. That usually means export/import. HTH, Brian -- =================================================================== Brian Peasland dba@remove_spam.peasland.com Remove the "remove_spam." from the email address to email me. "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of the three"