During a RAC round table session at UKOUG conference last November Larry Carpenter suggested Golden Gate for this type of migration.... Comes at extra cost but on paper looks reasonable. Depends on how important your setup is and how management weighs downtime vs license cost. Martin On 05/16/2010 12:32 PM, Oracle Dba Wannabe wrote: > On a side note the only reason I'm looking at use this process say over > expdp/impdp is that the database is 6TB. I'm unsure of how much > additional load would be generated on the source systems (which are > 24x7) if I go the expdp/impdp route. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Oracle Dba Wannabe <oracledbawannabe@xxxxxxxxx> [...] > > -- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l