On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mary Christie Generalao wrote:
..
> Btw, is it ok to move oracle's data tree when
> migrating from one server to another? Im just curious.
> Our current production oracle8.6.1 is in solaris with
> data in /u02. Suppose I wanted to create an oracle
> development server on a linux machine, same version as
> that in solaris and wanted to have existing data in
> solaris as my startup data in linux- is it safe to
> just copy entire /u02 of solaris into linux's oracle
No it is not safe. If the underlying filesystem block size is different,
you are SCREWED!! plus, SPARC is big-endian while Intel IA32 is
little-endian: more opportunities for screwing.
In fact, I once tried to transfer Oracle files from an ext2 to a ReiserFS
partition on the SAME Linux box: no dice.
You need to EXP your entire database (or subset thereof) on SPARC then IMP
it on the Linux box.
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