Using a pipe accross network with export/import

I am considering how to transfer a DB to a new platform minimizing downtime. I would start a full export of the source DB (8.1.7, Solaris 7) into a named pipe located on a NFS mounted LUN which belongs to the target DB (Oracle 9i, Linux/Intel). On the target DB side, the import job would read from the named pipe, so export and import will run in parallel.

Is this feasible?

Thanks
Rick Denoire Received on Wed Aug 27 2003 - 17:52:05 CDT