Calm down and check your English syntax: ...don’t think they are currently transportable currently... But you might find out why he is doing this before you lose your temper too badly. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Just sent this to a consultant working here - Am I right to be cross? > > Exporting 25 gig of data and copying it and importing has many risks. > The amount of archivelogs produced will slow you down hugely as will index > creation. > You will probably have to have several goes. And disk space is getting > tight on box2 > I would suggest you use transportable table spaces. I don’t think they are > currently transportable currently otherwise you could have used the backup I > am doing now. > > I have freed some space on box2 but please don’t start copying until my > test is done. Its pretty hard to get a test slot and copying large files > would slow things down. > > You could also use the rman backups. > > Also please do me the courtesy of letting me know when you are embarking on > exercises that will have a major impact on our servers. I am after all > supposed to be looking after all the Linux Boxes and all the databases. > > > -- > Howard A. Latham > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'