| best way to refresh database on oracle 8.0.6 from export file [message #133155] |
Wed, 17 August 2005 20:32  |
Natraj
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Hi,
I have a production database running on windows . it is oracle 8.0.6. we have a export backup of production database. i had created a new database from this production database withs ame name and data files as the production database. now the production database will be shut down and i need to refresh the new database i created some 10 days back with all the changes that has happened during the last 10 days. we have just the export back up of production database. tell me the best possible value to refresh the test database. doing import with ignore=y will cause duplication. should i drop all the users in the new test database and do a import again? this is the best thing i can think of, also i plan to recreate the indexes rather than importing. the database size is 15GB and we need to minimise downtime. Let me know the best steps
Cheers
raj
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| Re: best way to refresh database on oracle 8.0.6 from export file [message #133362 is a reply to message #133290] |
Thu, 18 August 2005 11:36  |
Natraj
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since i have already created a test database one week back and imported and created a copy of the production database and it worked fine, our application owners wanted to follow the same path of export/import,
if i recreate the new database by taking a cold backup of the files of production database. i will need to blow up the old test database, and recreate the control file, change the paths etc.
since we will be mostly doing import
if i want to just do a complete import, should i use
drop user username cascade;
i will drop all the users(excluding sys and system which cannot be dropped)in that case i will have to export each and every schema seperately isn't it? or is there a way of importing just the users schema from a full export dump?if i do a import of the full export dump, by saying ignore=y i guess we will have duplicate rows.
my question is with export/import with a complete dump of the database how should i import so that the prior data does not have duplicate entries.
you are right 8.0.6 is old.we need to upgrade it.
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| Re: best way to refresh database on oracle 8.0.6 from export file [message #133363 is a reply to message #133362] |
Thu, 18 August 2005 11:41 |
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Mahesh Rajendran
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Take one full export.
You can import schema by schema
imp dba/passs@test fromuser=scott touser=scott.
>>if i do a import of the full export dump, by saying ignore=y i guess we will have duplicate rows.
If you have already removed the users/table data, why would you get duplicate records?
So,
take full export from source.
remove all tables in target schema.
import one schema at a time.
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