Hope I am Not flooding as I received Delivery failure -----Original Message----- From: VIVEK_SHARMA Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:31 PM To: 'tim@xxxxxxxxx'; 'rjamya@xxxxxxxxx' Cc: Thomas Day; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: DB Movement from Sun to AIX ? Tim, Raj Am unable to follow. Do you mean OS Copy Cold Datafiles from SUN to "firewire Drives" at source location & reverse Copy from "firewire Drives" to AIX at Target Location? Is firewire some new technology that allows the above? Some details please? Thanks so much -----Original Message----- From: Tim Gorman [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:20 PM To: VIVEK_SHARMA; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Thomas Day Subject: RE: DB Movement from Sun to AIX ? This may sound a bit minimalist, but you can buy a 300Gb-512Gb firewire drive for $300-$500 or so. Make it into NFS mounted volumes presented from a laptop. Copy files to it, pack up the laptop and the drive(s) and then just drive to the other facility, repeat process in reverse. Sound far-fetched? I did exactly this with a 200Gb "secret" government database last year, except I had to fly between data centers (won't explain almost getting cavity-searched at the airport for booking a one-way ticket on short notice!). Overall, this worked faster and better than all of the other more elaborate plans involving temporary T1 lines, rented/loaner storage arrays, etc... Keep it simple. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:47:49 +0530, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote > Folks > > Need to migrate a big production Hybrid database from Oracle 8.1.7 > on Sun to 9.2 on AIX. > > Main issue is that Source & Target DB Boxes/Machines being Located > 20 KMs apart there is NO connectivity between them currently NOR > being planned. > > Existing Options:- > > NOTE AIX Storage Box is external to the machine & respective DB > Machine is of Very High Configuration. > > 1) Connect temporarily a Smaller AIX Box/machine with the required > external storage Box(which is going-to-become production) at the > location of the source SUN Server. After using suitable methods for > Data transfer e.g. DB Link, Materialized views, exp/imp thereafter > disconnect the external Storage, physically transport/shift it to > the Target location & connect it to the High End AIX machine. > > Qs Since this is an IO intensive Operation, how will a smaller Box > with a few CPUs impact the speed of Data transfer from the SUN Server? > > 2) If Above is NOT possible, fire export(exp) of those Larger > History Tables which do NOT get updated for past data, transport exp > dump manually to target machine & import into Target DB. Thereafter > insert incremental records which are added. > > 3) Is it possible to use some unsupported parameters to move the > Data/Database (e.g. thru transportable Tablespaces) from SUN into > the AIX Target machine? Thereafter data can be moved from this > unsupported DB into Another NEWLY created Database on the same > Server using conventional means e.g. DB Link, CTAS etc? > > Miscellaneous info:- > > AIX box is going to be a NEW installation. > > It is also NOT possible to physically re-locate the production SUN > server to the Location of the AIX Box. > > Source Database is on Sun with Oracle 8.1.7 > Target DB needs to go to AIX on Oracle 9.2 > DB size - 600 GB > Application - Online Hybrid Banking Application > Num of Users - a few thousand Bank Staff users > Application is NOT on the internet. Hence can be brought down for > about 6-8 hours Any advice is welcome. > > Thanks > > > > **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** > This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION > intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the > intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete > the original message. 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