RMAN requires archive log I suppose.. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:40370408605260 think of putting it in archive log the new infrastructure is good so in your case, in one hour how much gb/tb of data can be backedup and restored, how many NICs and multiple processess for copying of datafiles..you can have.. have you taken any tiral/pilot runs of datatransfer in this new environment...if 48 hours down time window is non-negotiable then use only proven and known methods as per your comfort level.. these are few inputs from my side...subodh On 20 January 2011 13:43, dd yakkali <dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear DB admin gurus, > > I need some thoughts on this. We have a very large NOArchivelog database > 11.1.0.7 RAC 20 node RHEL4, 300+T spread on about 50 tablespaces, we want > copy this to another RAC cluster RHEL5 30 nodes in a different data center > connected with pretty good network infrastructure between them. They both > use ASM of course. > > We are probably allowed to be down on the source for about 48 Hours max. > > So our aim is to parallelize(increase throughput by utilizing all the > nodes of both RAC systems ) the copy from one ASM to another ASM directly. > I want to know what techniques are available to do this. Few techniques > that came up in the discussion are RMAN duplicate database, > dbms_file_transfer via dblink to copy datafiles using transportable > tablespaces technique etc. > > I want to know if any of you out there did dbms_file_transfer between > databases and if you did, can you please share your experiences. > > Any thoughts/pointers are greatly appreciated. > > thanks > Deen > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================