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Your cold backup of an Oracle database running on a Windows platform
cannot be used to create a copy on the Unix platform. You will have to
resort to Oracle's export and import utilities. (Note: Oracle10g does
add cross platform Transportable Tablespaces and the Data Pump
utilities, but you are running 8i so I won't discuss those here.)
Oracle's export/import utilities are the tools of choice to move your
data to a different platform.
Copying a database
If you want to copy the entire database, the basic steps are as
follows:
1. Perform a full export:
exp userid=system/manager file=my_db.dmp log=my_db.log full=y
The FULL=Y parameter forces a full database export. I also make sure
to log the output of my export utility to a log file. It becomes a
handy reference.
2. FTP the dump file (and log file) to the destination server. Make
sure that you FTP in binary mode!
3. Precreate a new database on the destination server.
4. Precreate the tablespaces on the new database to match the same tablespace names of your source database.
5. Import the full database:
imp userid=system/manager file=my_db.dmp log=imp.log full=y
Again, log the output to a file in case there are errors.
Copying a schema
If you only want to copy a schema to the new server, things are
basically the same.
1. Perform a schema export:
exp userid=system/manager file=my_db.dmp log=my_db.log owner=SCOTT
The OWNER parameter exports a schema. In my example, that would be the SCOTT schema. Again, I also make sure to log the output of my export utility to a log file.
2. FTP the dump file (and log file) to the destination server. Make
sure that you FTP in binary mode!
3. Precreate a new database on the destination server.
4. Precreate the tablespaces on the new database to match the same tablespace names of your source database.
5. Precreate the user in that database.
6. Import the dump file:
imp userid=system/manager file=my_db.dmp log=imp.log fromuser=SCOTT
Again, log the output to a file in case there are errors. The FROMUSER clause tells imp which schema to import. If you wish to change the objects to a new owner, use the TOUSER clause as well.
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