Re: endian and cooked to raw conversion for TTS

Just an FYI,

These are transportable tablespaces from ADCi and contain NAVTEQ map data.
The rman convert wrote out to the raw device with an offset so as to
not clobber the header and the transport_tablespace import ran without a
problem.

David

On 10/4/07, David Taft <oradbt054@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do the endian conversion and the
> conversion from a cooked datafile to raw in one step as follows?
>
> CONVERT TABLESPACE sdo_data TO PLATFORM 'AIX-Based Systems (64-bit)'
> db_file_name_convert='/home/oracle/datafile/sdo_data01.dbf ',
> '/dev/ra0027da001';
>
> Normally I would think it would be a two step process, the endian
> conversion followed by a dd to convert a cooked file to raw.  One of my
> co-workers thinks RMAN will do it without clobbering any header info in the
> raw device.
>
>

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