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Jeff Kennedy wrote:
>
> I need help badly! I need to update a database on NT with data from a
> SUN. We have exported directly to tape on the SUN and now need to be
> able to import it on NT.
>
> Oracle says that you cannot import from tape on NT. Huh?! How could
> that possibly be?
>
> We have complete distributions of Oracle 8i. It's running on both
> platforms. Can this be done? It should be as simple as exporting
> from SUN and importing on NT but it doesn't seem to be so simple.
>
> Should we use backup and recovery manager? Backup from SUN and
> recover on NT?
>
> We could always do the kludge workaround: export to disk on SUN, ftp
> to an NT machine on our network, use NT Backup to put it on tape, use
> NT Backup on the target machine to restore the data to disk, then
> import from disk.
>
> Oh, yeah, the target machine is not on our network and the amount of
> data doesn't allow for ftp across the 'net. I am not a DBA and our
> dba's don't have an answer for this one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~JK
One work around would be:
HTH
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"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Wed Nov 03 1999 - 04:49:43 CST
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