ftp error

[brian_31]

I have ftp'd several raw volumes from one machines to other on hp-ux 11.0. today i am trying the same thing (ftp a oracle raw volume) from one machine to another and it says not a plain file. any thoughts? I just did this even last week on another box. (same 11.0)

Thanks

brian

[brian_31]

OK..Here is a very strange update...on the machine where i am able to copy i see the raw volumes under a filesystem(stange) for ex. if /opt/oracle is the filesystem then i have both rREDOLOG1 and REDOLOG1 under /opt/oracle. my question is how can we do lvcreate giving the full path name? how is the raw volume under a filesystem path? how do you create it at the first place?

Thanks

Brian.

[Sajjad Sahir]

Dear Brian

I don't u question cleary u are saying logical raw devices doing through ftp to anohter machine?
i am asking both system is in cluster?

expecting more details

thanks

sajjad

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

An oracle raw disk area is not a regular file. It can not be transferred system to system with ftp.

I have successfully seen transfers of such disk areas in the following methods:
1) Ignite replication of the entire system including raw disk areas. make_tape_recovery and make_net_recovery
2) dd commands, via network.

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