Re: How to move a databse from Solaris to Llinux

On the same lines I think I had seen on the list some time back a script to import from an export into a named pipe. It was supposed to be very fast. I am "shell script challenged". Essentially it was exported into a named pipe which was simultaneously imported. Maybe the author can post it again.

"Khedr, Waleed" wrote:

> EXPORT & IMPORT (could be done in parallel: many export & import sessions
> for different schemas or tables).
>
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> 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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