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Re: moving an Oracle database

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:59:35 +0100
Message-ID: <fj482m$t40$1@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


HoughtonPJ_at_googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> i hope someone can help. I've been given the task of moving an oracle
> database. The database is sitting on a w2k3 cluster attached to a EVA
> storage system. At present the servers are located at a remote site,
> and need to be relocated back to our central site, which means moving
> the data to new EVA's.
>
> the actual nodes of the clusters will be physically moved so nothing
> will change here. i'm going to be using microsofts cluster recovery
> tool to replace the cluster disk resources which is no problem. my
> only problem is the oracle part. I'm not an oracle DBA and am not
> training to be one, unfortunatly we don't have one in our dept as we
> mainly use SQL. from what i can gather all i need to do to move the
> database is shutdown the oracle service and copy the DB files to the
> EVA presented drives. these drives will be renamed to match the old
> drive names. once this is done i believe i can bring the database up
> and all will be well. is this correct??
>
> thanks in advance for any help! i have tried reading throuh the admin
> guide but as i know nothing about Oracle it doesn't make a lot of
> sense and i haven't really got time to start at the beginning!!
>

Pretty much sound like that's all.
As long as Oracle thinks it's still on the same machine (registry!!!), and accessing drives G:, H: and I:, as it always did, you're home free

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Tue Dec 04 2007 - 12:59:35 CST

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