I got 2 responses on this topic from:
Girish Phadke
Email : pgirish_at_maxisnet.com.my
George Guethlein
Lead UNIX System Admin
Girish said no problem, as did Compaq service. George suggested that I use
LSM to move the data by mirroring, but I need to increase the size also, so
that wont work. I've already started moving the data on-line during the day.
What a relief not to have to schedule down time to do this.
Thanks
John Hergert
Volkswagen of America
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hergert, John (PSC)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 5:08 PM
> To: 'alphalist'
> Subject: Oracle data migration
>
> Im about to start a rather large migration of Oracle ADVFS based databases
> to EMC disks and am just checking to see if anyone sees any problems with
> this plan:
>
> Create new volumes via LSM on EMC disks
> Add new volume to ADVFS filesystem
> Remove old volume from same ADVFS filesystem, forcing a copy of data to
> the new volume
>
> Ive done this a hundred times with regular files in ADVFS filesystems, but
> never with Oracle datafiles. I know Oracle plays games with file
> structures in file systems, so Im wondering if this is going to work or if
> it is going totally jumble the files.
>
> Can I do this while Oracle is up? Anyone else ever try this?
>
> Thanks
> John Hergert
> Volkswagen of America
Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 17:46:02 NZDT