Hi Nat, As long as you are not changing hardware platforms, you can use dd. (Of course, I assume you're on some flavor of unix, since you didn't mention OS.)
You can just do 'dd if=/path/to/filsystem/datafile of=/path/to/raw/volume'. Of course, your database must be down. -Mark On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 14:38, Nat wrote: > We are planning to move to raw devices for all our existing file systems. > Our database size is around 400 Gig. What is the recommended method that you > guys feel is best as far as time > required to convert and ease of conversion. > > We feel we cannot use export - import as this may take more time for > conversion.. > I checked many documents to find out the best method, there are few > suggestions to use RMAN to convert to raw. > seems it is fastest. At this point we have not configured RMAN on our > databases so this suggestion seems to be of no use for us. > > Please let me know, if any of you went through this exercise and any > suggestions and tips will be more beneficial, > > Thanks in advance, -- -- Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." -- Rene Descartes -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mark J. Bobak INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).