8.1.5 upgrade paths to 10.2.x

Hello group!

I have got a tricky problem at hand - migrate an Oracle 8.1.5 on Solaris 7 database to 10.2.0.x on AIX. The problem here is that I am not allowed much downtime. Having started with Oracle 8i I am not too sure how that can be done. Obviously to get from 8.1.5 I have to go to 8.1.7 first, a direct update is supported which is good. I am thinking of a new Oracle home on the same machine, copying the database and migrating it.

From there on I don't see any other way than exp/imp using pipes for faster processing. It is a bit of a mystery how I can keep the downtime low, the database is some 60GB in size btw.

Thanks for any input on this,

Martin

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