Well, you can't do it then. The rule is that the lower version of export
can be used against a higher version of the database, but not the other way
around. The key is to get a version 7 dump file, which a higher version of
import can read, exactly as Jon said.
Regards
HJR
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"Stan Brown" <stanb_at_panix.com> wrote in message
news:9qepmn$bk$1_at_panix3.panix.com...
> In <3BCAE8F6.42AC718D_at_btinternet.com> Jon Osborne
<jon.osborne_at_btinternet.com> writes:
>
> >Stan,
>
> >You've used the 9i export utility. Use the export utility that came with
> >Oracle7 to create an Oracle7 format export file. Oracle9i should be able
to
> >import that.
>
>
> Won't work. I need the new machine which is a Linux machine, to back up
the
> old instance. Can't even _get_ a version 7 set of client side tools for
> LINUX ADAIK.
>
> --
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
> neither liberty nor safety."
> -- Benjamin Franklin
Received on Mon Oct 15 2001 - 16:05:07 CDT
