This is not possible due to certain security restrictions. However, I'm
thinking to simply copy them to the Linux box from the Solaris box, back
them up from the Linux box and then recover them to the original Solaris
box into a test area and then run MD5 checksums between the original
data and the recovered data. If all the same, should be okay?

George

thierry.faidherbe AT hp DOT com wrote:
> 
> An alternative to your problem would be to backup to a file device on your
> linux system (disk space usage will remain the same) and then staging to
> tape.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Th
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have some Oracle database dump files on a Solaris box (Solaris 2.7),
> > and I'd like to copy these to one of our Linux Red Hat boxes (AS 3) and
> > then back them up from there. I was performing the backups on the Sun
> > box, but due to certain backup configuration restrictions we have in
> > place, I have to use a slower, older library to do this, so if I copy
> > them to the Linux Box, I can use a newer, faster library. I would, of
> > course, validate that the data on the Linux machine is the same using
> > MD5 checksums on both sides. We don't have everything in place yet to do
> > hot backups via Oracle module.
> >
> > I am concerned, however, about this business of little-endian versus
> > big-endian. I'd heard that before regarding the possibility of problems
> > when transferring client indexes, wherein the checksums might match just
> > dandy, *BUT* OS differences in how bits are read could cause still
> > mischief? Is this a concern here?
> >
> > I should note that indexing is turned off for the pools we use to back
> > up these Oracle dump files, so we would use saveset recover to recover
> > these.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > George
> >
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