RE: Porting Oracle Datafiles to an x86 machine
- From: "Parker, Matthew" <matthewp@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <aamgms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:14:10 -0700
10G supports datafile conversion from Big Endian to Little Endian. For =
8.1.7 on AIX it would be worthwhile to look into the used market for IBM =
equipment, such as http://www.xcc.com. There are variety of other sites =
you can find through google. Most of the price will come down to how =
much disk space you need, since a lot of memory or cpu is not needed for =
a recovery test. A couple of years back I acquired a 500GB system for =
around 8K (yes more than a plain jane Intel system), but your milage =
will vary on how bad a company wants to get rid of a system.
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Subject: Porting Oracle Datafiles to an x86 machine
Hi list
I have an IBM AIX 5.1 (PowerPC Power4 RISC processor) server running =
Oracle
8.1.7 and I want to have a test restore/recovery server for testing the =
validity of all my backups and a development database. My problem is we =
can't afford another server (AIX) and thus I'm considering buying an x86 =
(Intel or AMD Linux server { much much affordable you will agree} ) and =
then port all the datafiles to that machine.
My question is will these datafiles be portable/compatible on a =
Redhat/Suse linux server? or I'll have to convert the datafiles to a =
certain format to make them compatible to the linux box? Does this =
really work? Can I have a test database running on a completely =
different platform (processor) as the production database?=20
Thank you for all the help.
Best Regards.
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