> I post the results of my tests, maybe it can be of > help to someone. > > - I stopped the original Oracle 8 & 9 database on the > Sun280R with Solaris 8. > - Then I made a tar.bz2 of all the oracle product & > data folders. > - Moved everything on the new machine with Solaris > 10 > - Recreated everything with the same folder > structure > - Created the necessary users and groups for oracle > - Copied the /etc/system parameters > - Copied the necessary hosts informations > - Copied the /etc/profile modifications for system > wide environment to oracle > - Copied the /var/opt/oracle files > - Copied the /etc/init.d/dbora > - Started oracle with dbora start > > Both Oracle 8 & 9 works fine. > I will do some stress to the db now. > > Thanx Sun for your great effort on backward > portability.
Many thanks gbulfon I had to copy an old 8.1.7 database to another server so it can be back record converted. All we've got available is Solaris 10. I really appreciate you posting your solution because it made it really easy. And, it worked straight away. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
