Transportable tablespaces and cross platform incremental backup procedures
Hello,
I'm currently migrating an 11g database from Solaris 10 to Red Hat 4.8.5-28, following instructions documented in 11G - Reduce Transportable Tablespace Downtime using Cross Platform Incremental Backup (Doc ID 1389592.1).
The process described in the above article are moving along well; however, it's been a while since I've done the final step involving importing the remaining database accounts and objects.
Once I'm complete importing each tablespace's metadata, I believe I can take a full datapump export of the source database with no data, and then perform a full datapump import in which I set object_exists_action to skip since the tables of interest will already be available for use. At this point, I will have the additional accounts from the source database in the new one, plus any additional objects such as triggers, PL/SQL code, materialized views, etc...