[sclug] Writing files to 2 places at once?

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Sapan Ganguly wrote:

> I have a good question.  First of all here is my situation, I have a RHEL3
> machine running Oracle, the server is low on disk space (but not critical
> yet) so I've attached a disk array to it.  I've set myself the task of
> moving the Oracle datafiles (about 90 files 2.0Gb or more each) to the new
> disk array without any down time...or maybe a small amount of down time,
> certainly no more than 1 hour.

For the next time you set up Oracle, look into LVM and its snapshotting
facility. I'm not sure, however, if Oracle co-operates with it - check with
them.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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