Re: Exporting across Platforms
Date: 1995/07/21
Message-ID: <3upel9$ldf_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1
In article <3up3f5$82h_at_gw.PacBell.COM>, ardamon_at_srv.PacBell.COM (Tony Damon) writes:
|> In article 6914_at_llap.demon.co.uk, steve_at_llap.demon.co.uk (Steve Pilgrim) writes:
|> >klolio_at_nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karen Lolio x2857) wrote:
|> >
|> >> I'm trying to find out if I will be able to take an Oracle database
|> >>and export it across several Unix platforms. Soon we will have Oracle
|> >>installed on various platforms (SGI, HP, DEC in addition to Sun/Solaris)
|> >>and to save testing time I want to be able to use the same data. We
|> >>currently have 7.1.3 installed under Solaris. Does anyone know of any
|> >>problems that may come up when I try to export/import this data?
|> >
|> >
|> >Never had any problems. File must be transferred binary.
|> >
|>
|> I'm sending an export file created on an IBM VM (EBCDIC) via FTP to a Sun/Solaris
|> (ASCII) machine. If I try sending in ASCII mode I get an 'abnormal end of export
|> file' error when I import. If I send it in BINARY mode I get a 'not a valid
|> export file' error. Any suggestions?
|>
|> VM Oracle version - 7.0.16
|> Unix Oracle version - 7.1.4
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Tony Damon
|>
My guess would be the difference in character sets. Check to see if your FTP
program (or some other utility) can translate between EBCDIC and ASCII.
Received on Fri Jul 21 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST