You may want to review an article, "Cross Platform Migration of a Large Production Database", in the latest issue(2nd Qtr 2003) of SELECT journal (by IOUG). The author details the procedure he followed to migrtate a 300GB production database from HP-UX to IBM AIX.
- Kirti --- "Goulet, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exp/imp of a 200GB database is possible, but I'd think the time required would be > the long pole > in the tent. I'd say your looking at at least a 4 day weekend at best and only if > you used > direct mode. Someone has hinted that you can simply move the datafiles from one box > to the > other. Well I'd not loose the original system before you prove that. My experience > with > database file from Solaris to HP-UX has been a 100% loss of data. Granted that was > on a much > earlier version of Oracle (6.0.x). > > Dick Goulet > Senior Oracle DBA > Oracle Certified 8i DBA > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 7:29 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > .. > > > Hi all: > > We are considering migration of an Oracle eBusiness Suite 11.5.8 from > HP-UX 11.0 to Solaris9. > > I'd like to know if anyone has done this and how daunting the task is. > > Are there any 3rd Party tools which can help out? > > Coming to the conventional approaches: > > 1. What do you think of Export/Import of a 200 GB database? > 1a. How much time will it take? > 1b. Any strategies for cutting that down? > > 2. How does CTAS over dblink compare to Export/Import? > > 3. Is there any tool that converts Oracle datafiles on HP-UX 11.0 to > Oracle datafiles on Solaris 9. If so we would just need to recreate the > control files on the target database and we are done. > > Any suggestions, pointers, words of wisdom are greatly appreciated... > > Thanks & Regards, > Sashi > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Sashidhar Kondareddy > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Kirtikumar Deshpande INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
