If you are on Oracle 10gR2, it is more easily to convert the database across platforms using RMAN. I have done this quite few times and succeeded. Regards, Jaffar On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Haroon A. Qureshi < haroon_a_qureshi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > We are doing a database migration from AIX to Linux. Our database is > 600gb. Has anyone used the rman convert database method to migrate the > database? Do you have any timings you can share, especially compared to > expdp/impdp? Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of time to try it out > myself. > > Thanks in advance! > Haroon > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain Oracle Certified Master (10g) http://www.oracle.com/technology/ocm/shussain.html Oracle ACE http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19297:4:1579866181463918::NO:4:P4_ID:126 OCP 8i,9i & 10g DBA RAC Certified Expert Official Oracle RAC SIG Representative for Saudi Arabian region ( http://www.oracleracsig.org/) I blog at http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ -------------------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently."