I'm hoping someone can give me a little advice here. We have a Sun
Solaris 9 system that is running Oracle 9.2.0.6. The database was built
with a 4k block size. We have since purchased a Sun V480 and have
installed Oracle 9.2.0.6 on it and have used an 8k block size. I now need
to move the data over from the 4k Db to the 8k Db. I know I can do an
export/import but that takes three days due to the amount of data on the
original box. Does anyone know of a quick way to clone the database to
the new machine while preserving the new block size?

Jesse Santana
System Administrator
Information Technology Services
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840

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