http://relcon.typepad.com/relatively_speaking/2009/10/migrating-an-oracle-database-from-solaris-to-linux.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-11g-platformmigrationtts-129269.pdf
Source database OS is Solaris and using OS file system. Target database is in on Linux and ASM.
Steps:
1. Check that platforms are compatible.
Run this query on the database you want to migrate from and it will list the platforms you can migrate to:
select * from V$TRANSPORTABLE_PLATFORM;
check the value of ENDIAN_FORMAT, if you are migrating from one format to another you are going to need to convert your database files, so for example going from Solaris to Linux you will need to convert.
PLATFORM_ID PLATFORM_NAME ENDIAN_FORMAT
----------- ------------------------------------ --------------
6 AIX-Based Systems (64-bit) Big
16 Apple Mac OS Big
21 Apple Mac OS (x86-64) Little
19 HP IA Open VMS Little
15 HP Open VMS Little
5 HP Tru64 UNIX Little
3 HP-UX (64-bit) Big
4 HP-UX IA (64-bit) Big
18 IBM Power Based Linux Big
9 IBM zSeries Based Linux Big
10 Linux IA (32-bit) Little
11 Linux IA (64-bit) Little
13 Linux x86 64-bit Little
7 Microsoft Windows IA (32-bit) Little
8 Microsoft Windows IA (64-bit) Little
12 Microsoft Windows x86 64-bit Little
17 Solaris Operating System (x86) Little
20 Solaris Operating System (x86-64) Little
1 Solaris[tm] OE (32-bit) Big
2 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) Big
2. You can only migrate tablespaces to a database which uses the same character set and national charcter set, so check if you are migrating to an existing database or make sure to use the same values if you are building a new database.
srcdb> SELECT * FROM nls_database_parameters order by 1; PARAMETER VALUE ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 NLS_COMP BINARY NLS_CSMIG_SCHEMA_VERSION 2 NLS_CURRENCY $ NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $ NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16 NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ., NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 11.2.0.3.0 NLS_SORT BINARY NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR 21 rows selected. tgtdb> SELECT * FROM nls_database_parameters order by 1; PARAMETER VALUE ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252 NLS_COMP BINARY NLS_CURRENCY $ NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $ NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16 NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ., NLS_RDBMS_VERSION 11.2.0.3.0 NLS_SORT BINARY NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR 20 rows selected.WE8MSWIN1252 is a superset of WE8ISO8859P1:
Difference between WE8MSWIN1252 and WE8ISO8859P1 characterset (Doc ID 341676.1)
Some problems repored from WE8ISO8859P1 to WE8MSWIN1252: https://forums.oracle.com/message/9885182#9885182
3. Assuming you are good to go you need to determine which tablespaces hold the data you want to transport and then double check that the list is self-contained, execute this PL/SQL procedure to check the tablespaces you plan to migrate:
sys@srcdb> execute sys.dbms_tts.transport_set_check('tbs1_data,tbs1_indx',true);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
sys@srcdb> select * from sys.transport_set_violations;
no rows selected
Note: these violations must be resolved before the tablespaces can be transported.
4. The tablespaces need to be in READ ONLY mode in order to successfully run a transport tablespace export:
alter tablespace tbs1_data read only;
alter tablespace tbs1_indx read only;
5. Export the metadata.
$ exp userid=\'/ as sysdba\' file=tbs_exp.dmp log=tba_exp.log transport_tablespace=y tablespaces=tbs1_data,tbs1_indx Export: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Aug 29 14:42:18 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Database Vault and Real Application Testing options Export done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set server uses WE8ISO8859P1 character set (possible charset conversion) Note: table data (rows) will not be exported About to export transportable tablespace metadata... For tablespace TBS1_DATA ... . exporting cluster definitions . exporting table definitions . . exporting table EC EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics. For tablespace TBS1_INDX ... . exporting cluster definitions . exporting table definitions . exporting referential integrity constraints . exporting triggers . end transportable tablespace metadata export Export terminated successfully with warnings.6. copy the metadata export, datafiles and any schema exports to the new host
cp tbs1_data_01.dbf /oradbbackup02_NFS/landingpad/dump
cp tbs1_indx_01.dbf /oradbbackup02_NFS/landingpad/dump
cp tbs_exp.dmp /oradbbackup02_NFS/landingpad/dump
Note: /oradbbackup02_NFS is NFS mount at source, and at target the mount is /oradbbackup02
7. convert the datafiles to new platform format using RMAN, in this example we will put the converted datafiles into an ASM instance:
rman target / convert datafile '/oradbbackup02/landingpad/dump/tbs1_data_01.dbf', '/oradbbackup02/landingpad/dump/tbs1_indx_01.dbf' from platform 'Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit)' format '+DATA_05' parallelism 4; Starting conversion at target at 29-AUG-13 using target database control file instead of recovery catalog allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=118 instance=tgtdb2 device type=DISK allocated channel: ORA_DISK_2 channel ORA_DISK_2: SID=124 instance=tgtdb2 device type=DISK allocated channel: ORA_DISK_3 channel ORA_DISK_3: SID=137 instance=tgtdb2 device type=DISK allocated channel: ORA_DISK_4 channel ORA_DISK_4: SID=151 instance=tgtdb2 device type=DISK channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile conversion input file name=/oradbbackup02/landingpad/dump/tbs1_data_01.dbf channel ORA_DISK_2: starting datafile conversion input file name=/oradbbackup02/landingpad/dump/tbs1_indx_01.dbf converted datafile=+DATA_05/tgtdb/datafile/tbs1_data.316.824728129 channel ORA_DISK_1: datafile conversion complete, elapsed time: 00:00:04 converted datafile=+DATA_05/tgtdb/datafile/tbs1_indx.317.824728131 channel ORA_DISK_2: datafile conversion complete, elapsed time: 00:00:04 Finished conversion at target at 29-AUG-13
8. plug the tablespace into the target database, check the ASM instance to get the names of the converted datafiles:
-- imp.par
file=tbs_exp.dmp
log=tts.log
transport_tablespace=Y
datafiles= '+DATA_05/tgtdb/datafile/tbs1_data.316.824728129'
,'+DATA_05/tgtdb/datafile/tbs1_indx.317.824728131'
$ imp userid=\'/ as sysdba\' parfile=imp.par
Import: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Aug 29 12:59:02 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Tes Export file created by EXPORT:V11.02.00 via conventional path About to import transportable tablespace(s) metadata... import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set import server uses WE8MSWIN1252 character set (possible charset conversion) . importing SYS's objects into SYS . importing SYS's objects into SYS . importing OPS$ORACLE's objects into OPS$ORACLE . . importing table "EC" . importing SYS's objects into SYS Import terminated successfully without warnings.9. set the imported tablespaces to read write:
alter tablespace tbs1_data read write;
alter tablespace tbs1_indx read write;
