<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Craig White wrote:</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>> I would probably do preupgrade which would essentially
download just<br>
> about everything needed and then have you reboot to get it installed,<br>
> perhaps 45 minutes to 2 hours downtime.<br>
> <br>
> It's not clear what your concern is with Oracle 11g install...is it<br>
> because you want to keep it online? If so, you will have to have some<br>
> downtime regardless of the method of upgrade (i.e. DVD upgrade or<br>
> preupgrade). Perhaps a yum upgrade would give you the least amount
of<br>
> downtime but I would think that during the time that yum is<br>
> processing/installing, performance from the Oracle server would be<br>
> miserable.<br>
> <br>
> If you have other concerns regarding upgrading a system with Oracle,
you<br>
> probably would want to be more specific.<br>
> <br>
> Craig<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In the past, every time the Oracle server
machine was upgraded, the process was to do a full (cold) database backup;
A complete OS install; A complete Oracle install; then a full database
restore. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Very, very time consuming and always
the question - What was missed? It's not a requirement to stay online,
but a real great advancement would be to go from 2-days to 4-hours!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Gene Poole<br>
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