FreeLists / oracle-l / Re: Migrate Oracle WIN32 bit to LINUX 64 bit.

["Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/1/07, Arnon, Yuval <Yuval.Arnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My plan is to migrate an Oracle 10.2.0.3 Win2003 32 bit to an Oracle
> 10.2.0.3 Linux 64bit RH 4.
> Have any of you guys ever tried to use RMAN backup/restore function to
> copy
> the Win32 DB to Linux 64 bit DB?
> What I need to be able to achieve is that the Win 32 DB be active while
> I do the RMAN backup, than I restore the DB using RMAN on Linux.


While the datafiles will work, the archivelog files ( and IIRC the
controlfiles)
are not in the same format between 32bit and 64bit databases.

I've tried restoring a 64bit Linux database to 32bit server.
The datafiles work, the controlfiles/archivelogs do not.

see http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/09-2006/msg00361.html


I moved a bunch of Win32 databases to 64bit Linux.  It was all done
via export/import.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist