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Dec 30, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Moving an Oracle Database from Solaris to AIX

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Hi all,

I have been asked to move an SAP system using an Oracle database from

Solaris to AIX (on an IBM P590).

Most of the move is straightforward, except the Oracle database

transfer. It would make my life so much easier if I could simply

restore the Oracle datafiles from an off-line backup of the Solaris

system and then link it to a clean install of the Oracle binaries on

the AIX system, rather than have to do an export and import.

Is this possible, after all the AIX Oracle binaries would be the same

patch level as the Solaris binaries and the file systems would be the

same. Also as it would be an offline backup we would not have to do

any recovery, so the archive logs and the original redo logs would not

be required.

Does anyone know if this is possible or has actually executed it

successfully, any hints and tips on the gotchas would be greatly

appreciated.

TIA

Chris aka BoobBoo