AIX

Dear all experts,
I would like to know if a pax command backup of AIX files can be restored into Linux environment run in Wintel server?
Currently I have a Full database backup using "pax" command in AIX box(IBM pSeries), the new management decison of the new server is on Wintel server which is much more cheaper compare to pSeries. The new Wintel will be run on Linux.
I would like to know if the backup can be restored easily to Linux Wintel server with pax command as well? Or it need to use a different command for the backup.
How about a FS Backup or VG backup? Can these be restored into Linux env?
Thanks.

A pax archive created on AIX will be most probably be extractable on Linux. You could just try it out with a very small archive yourself.
If you can use the extracted contents on Linux depends on them.
If a FS backup can be restored on Linux depends with which tool you did it on AIX, if it is available on Linux and is compatible. If you can use the restored contents, depeneds, again, of what that is.

Generally: If it is executables you restore, they will not be able to run on Linux. If it is just a DB backup and the RDBMs is the same on AIX as on Linux, you will be most probably be able to import it on Linux. Same for simple CSV files or something like that.

A VG backup or any backup based on AIX's LVM will not be able to restored on Linux. You don't even have the utilities there and the LVM of Linux is not the same as on AIX.

If your backup contains any binary data, your backup may succeed, but the contents of the data will be in error...

The byte ordering of binary fields differs on the two platforms.
Aix is a MSBF (Most Significant Byte First) system, whereas
Intel is a LSBF (Least Significant Byte First) system.

Hi,
Why you don't use rman with command convert, or data pump export/import?

We don't have Oracle agent purchased. Export/Import will require extremely long time.

It's good idea use pax.
If are any modules PL/SQL you probebly will validate them.