Re: Is copying Oracle Software from one machine to another (alpha/vms) ok?

In article <7hrsag$qeg$1_at_nova.thezone.net>, fseymour_at_nfpower.na.ca says...
> Hi There.
>
> We are running Oracle 7.3.3 on Alpha VMS 7.1.
>
> As a part of a disaster recovery effort, we are restoring a full backup of all
> disks from one machine (DRACO) to another machine (CORVUS).

Assuming that this is a true diaster recovery site. I would just load the the draco tape on corvus and boot corvus as draco. Assuming that your users come in over sqlnet, this is the easiest way. Otherwise you must change all of your user's tnsnames.ora. <clip>

> My plan is to simply edit these files and change all references to the original
> machine name (DRACO) to the new machine name (CORVUS). Will this cause me any
> problems ? Should I really be installing Oracle on the new machine from
> scratch?

If you are not doing true disaster recovery, I would reinstall oracle on corvus. VMS Oracle was a pain to move the last time I had to do it (read 6 years ago)

Liz

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