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Hi Nat,
As long as you are not changing hardware platforms, you can use dd. (Of course, I assume you're on some flavor of unix, since you didn't mention OS.)
You can just do 'dd if=/path/to/filsystem/datafile of=/path/to/raw/volume'.
Of course, your database must be down.
-Mark
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 14:38, Nat wrote:
> We are planning to move to raw devices for all our existing file systems.
> Our database size is around 400 Gig. What is the recommended method that you
> guys feel is best as far as time
> required to convert and ease of conversion.
>
> We feel we cannot use export - import as this may take more time for
> conversion..
> I checked many documents to find out the best method, there are few
> suggestions to use RMAN to convert to raw.
> seems it is fastest. At this point we have not configured RMAN on our
> databases so this suggestion seems to be of no use for us.
>
> Please let me know, if any of you went through this exercise and any
> suggestions and tips will be more beneficial,
>
> Thanks in advance,
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