Re: Migrating W2K to RHEL

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:17:26 GMT, Janos Makadi <maki_at_freemail.hu> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We want to upgrade our 9i to 10g, and during this we would like to
>switch the OS from W2K server to RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES.
>
>Does anybody has any experience with this? I mean we made things like
>this before, but the only working solution to do the OS switch is the
>import/export, which is very slow. Is there any tricks or techiques to
>speed up this process, or somebody know any other solution?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Janos Makadi
>Hungary

As this is a platform swap, export/import is your only option. This method is not necessarily 'very slow' provided you don't run with the default parameters.
There used to be an article on Connor Mc Donalds site, http://oracledba.co.uk with tips to speed up (primarily) import. On 10g, according to Oracle, import is alos faster.

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