Re: Move Oracle from one AIX box to another one

Joel Garry wrote in message <6i5m7i$e1a$1_at_pebble.ml.org>...
>In article <35448736.5067B43F_at_ribm00.rhic.bnl.gov>,
>Grace Tsai <gtsai_at_ribm00.rhic.bnl.gov> wrote:
>>Currently, our Oracle is in AIX 4.1.4 of an IBM RS/6000 model 550
>>computer. Our Oracle version is 7.3.2. Since the machine is old and the
>>support fee is high, so we are planning to move the Oracle to a newer
>>machine IBM model E30 which has AIX 4.1.5. The Oracle software and
>>database files are in two harddisks which are attached to the old
>>machine. Those two disks contain only the Oracle stuffs, nothing else.
>>We are thinking to detatch the two disks from the old machine, attach
>>them to the new machine, and move the Oracle configuration files which
>>are not in these two disks (e.g., listener.ora) to the new machine. We
>>try to avoid reinstalling the Oracle in the new machine. Do you think
>>our plan is OK? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>If you name all the devices exactly the same as on the old machine, it
should
>work.

you don't have to.
After you connect those 2 disks to a new box and boot do "importvg hdiskXX"
where hdiskXX is a new disk.
This will automatically create all the devices as they were on the old box.
All you would need to do after is to mount the filesystems on the new disks.

Sergei

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>>
>>Grace Tsai
>>Brookhaven National Lab
>>
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Received on Thu Apr 30 1998 - 11:26:48 CDT