Re: Upgrade 9.2 to 11.2 with minimal downtime

From: Chuck <chuckh1958_nospam_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:25:49 -0400
Message-ID: <isbjgt$ald$2_at_dont-email.me>



On 6/3/2011 3:21 PM, onedbguru wrote:
> On Jun 3, 11:27 am, Chuck <chuckh1958_nos..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> One more minor factor I forgot to mention :) ....
>>
>> I am also bunzipping the export file on the fly when importing it...
>>
>> bunzip2 < expdat.dmp.bz2 > mypipe &
>> imp file=mypipe ...
>>
>> Don't ask. That's the way it's being delivered.

>
> How do you create mypipe? typical would be: "mknod mypipe p"
>
> you do know that you can use impdp with your 9i exp file, right? It
> does actually run faster than imp. If you have the space, bunzip it
> first.

Every time I try to load the 9i dump file with impdp I get

ORA-39143: dump file "/oramisc/export/TPMACPRD/test.dmp" may be an original export dump file

and it fails Received on Fri Jun 03 2011 - 16:25:49 CDT

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