Re: How to move a databse from Solaris to Llinux

You can't use backup and restore to move a database between different platforms. A while ago, someone on this list posted a message that he/she was going to make a tool that allows this to happen. But until then, you will have to do export and import.

Richard Ji

>>> rwagner_at_zeunastaerker.de 09/19/01 12:46PM >>>
Hi all,

we have to move a 135 GB Oracle 8.0.6 database from Solaris 7 to Linux. We tried a simple restore of the database files from the last offline backup (tape) as we did it many times between equal systems.

After creating the new control file on the target system the database could not be started, becaue Oracle thinks that the system data file isn't really a data file!

This means i have to do an export/import! I assume an export time of round about 10 hrs. Is there any easier way?

TIA Reinhold Wagner

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