MKguy
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

A File level conversion is not "dangerous", but it can be slower especially with lots of small files.

But I honestly wouldn't recommend hot-converting a transactional service like a SQL database. Ideally the SQL services should be stopped during conversion.

Also you will certainly incur some downtime at least for the switchover from the original to the cloned new instance.

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