Re: Moving large amounts of data from one Oracle Server to another

You might want to consider upgrading to Oracle 8i (8.1.5) soon. There is a feature called portable tablespaces. It might be faster just to move the tablespaces from one server to another.
My25/c.

"Bobc" <bobchaytor_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9vaH4.143011$Hq3.3361229_at_news2.rdc1.on.home.com...
> Here is the situation:
> There is 10 gb of data on a production server (Oracle 7.3.?.?) that I need
> to move to a second server on a quarterly basis (Same version of Oracle).
> Currently this data is bundled up in a full oracle export, sent to the
> second Unix box, an import is performed and then the quarterly processing
> takes place on the second box. The whole process from the start of the
> export to the end of the import is taking 8-10 hours!!! This is way to
> long. The export processing is taking place on a large parallel siemens
 box
> the import is being done on a smaller siemens machine.
>
> Does anyone out there have an suggestions on a different approach to
 moving
> this data to the second machine? I am open to any and all ideas. I can
> only assume, since I have not had a chance to look at the database tuning
> issues that both databases are well tuned, if you know of any tuning issue
> specific to import/export I would really like to hear about them.
>
> One requirement of any suggestion is that it can not heavily impact
> performance on the main production server.
>
> If it is not to much trouble, could you email me directly.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob.
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT