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Bob wrote:
> b) What I would like to do is use the backup of the database on the
> HP-UX 11.00 32-Bit machine (cold backup in this case) and use it on
> the HP-UX 11.00 64-bit machine. I have been told by our unix team
> that we can't use a 32-bit oracle backup of the database on a 64-bit
> version of Oracle. Is this correct ?
Hmm, it depends on the backup infrastructure, or better the backup media mamagemant software ... and what type of oracle backup?
But if you have the downtime to make a offline backup, then you can copy the datafiles to the other machine via scp or nfs instead of the offline backup and make the new backup form the new machine. This is much faster the exp/imp ...
Eberhard Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 16:41:06 CST