Re: migriate the oracle9204 throught copying datefile between different linux.

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From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 30 Mar 2005 01:01:11 -0800
Message-ID: <1112173271.729741.216710@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

yoke wang wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to migrate oracle9204 from RedFlag DC
Server4.1(2.4.21-9.30AX
> smp) to RedHat Advanced Server3.0(update 3 kernel 2.4.21-20 smp) by
> copying datafiles(cold backup exactly) and installing database
> software only on RAS3.
> But I'm not sure if there will be any risk in production evirnonment.
> I have tried that here and everything seems fine.
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> wy.

If the OS and Oracle versions are identical between both servers, there should not be an issue with copying datafiles across... however, if you are not sure then take the less risky route of doing full exp/imp.

Regards
/Rauf Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 03:01:11 CST