Hi, Here are my blog posts from my migration from HP-UX into Linux and how you can minimize downtime. http://oracleprof.blogspot.ie/2014/07/crossplatform-transportable-tablespaces.html http://oracleprof.blogspot.ie/2014/08/crossplatform-transportable-tablespaces.html regards, Marcin On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:26 PM, David Barbour <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good Morning, > > We're running Oracle 11.2.0.3 on HPUX 64-bit Itanium using conventional > cooked filesystems. Need to move this to a Linux x86 64-bit, also running > 11.2.0.3. Due to the size of this thing, I'd like to use transportable > tablespaces. I've done this before using cooked filesystem to cooked file > system, and asm to asm, but never from cooked to asm. I don't anticipate > any problems, but I'd like to end up with OMF names. > > I plan to convert the tablespaces on the source and put the resulting > converted files into a directory I can nfs mount to the new server. > > > The metadata will be extracted using DataPump. When I've got the > converted files attached to the new server and invoke impdp with the > TRANSPORT_DATAFILES= parameter, will these automatically be converted to > OMF if I have the db_create_file_dest set to the ASM data volume for this > database? > > Any useful insights regarding the move gained through experience would be > appreciated as well. > > > > > -- Marcin Przepiorowski http://oracleprof.blogspot.com