Hello all,

I'm new here, so this information may exist elsewhere on this forum. If so, please point me in the right direction.

Here's the problem.

I'm trying to migrate Oracle data from an HP system to a Sun system using a raw device as a 'bridge' between the two systems. Both machines can see the disk and I've gone as far as to perform a 'pvcreate' on the HP side and a 'label' on the Sun side. The copy works using the following syntax:

dd if=<file on HP side> of=<HP link to raw device that can be seen by both systems> oseek=10 bs=1024 conv=sync count=400000

The problem is that the file being copied is roughly 370000 blocks in size so there's a 'buffer' of 30000 blocks attached to the end of the copied file. I've instructed my DBA to specify a count size similar in size to the file, but they have multiple files to copy and they're looking for a 'wildcard' so to speak that they can use for the count size so they can script the copy process.

Any ideas from anyone on how to proceed? Maybe even a different syntax? My DBA is limiting the options available by not wanting to use tar or a tape backup/restore. Hopefully I'm making sense here.

Thanks.