Re: RMAN catalog Recreation Problems/Questions ....

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Janardhana,

We had to do this recently.. I mean some thing similar.. This is what we have now..

Since the latest version of the db is needed for the catalog, in other words it is not upward compatible (Am I correct here ...) anyway..

The catalog db is in the latest version. which is 8.1.7.1

We have separate schemas for 816 and 817 in the db holding separate catalogs for these different versions.

While upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8i I was aware of a problem in which the upgrade catalog would not work as expected to.

Just registering the db again should work.

HTH Anjan

Janardhana Babu wrote:

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> Dear List Members,
>
> I have Production DB in 8.1.6.2.0(64bit) on one box, and RMAN catalog
> database
> (8.1.6.2.0) on another box. I need to upgrade both the DBs to 8.1.7.1.0. I
> have
> no problem upgrading the production DB to 8.1.7.0.0 and then to 8.1.7.1.0
> patch
> level.
>
> The box on which catalog DB exists has another production DB which was
> upgraded
> to 8.1.7.1.0. and so I CAN NOT upgrade catalog DB to 8.1.7.1.0 using
> normal
> upgrade procedure. I must upgrade to base line release first(8.1.7.0.0)
> and
> then patch needs to be applied. Since patch was already applied, my only
> option
> could be to recreate the catalog database in 8.1.7.1.0 and then DO THE
> FULL
> IMPORT. My questions would be:
>
> [1] Do I need to do the FULL IMPORT of the catalog database? and then
> issue the
> "upgrade catalog" command twice to upgrade the catalog to work with the
> latest
> RMAN version? [OR]
>
> [2] Do I just recreate the empty catalog DB in 8.1.7.1.0 and then follow
> the
> regular procedure to create RMAN schema and register the DB and then take
> the
> fresh cold backup to start with, followed by the regular daily incremental
>
> backups?
>
> [3]If I follow [2], I may loose the catalog info for 8.1.6.2.0. backups.
> Is the
> 8.1.6.2.0 catalog data useful after upgrading the DB to 8.1.7.1.0?
>
> Could some one please answer my above questions and suggest an appropriate
> procedure to
> upgrade the catalog DB to 8.1.7.1.0.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Janardhana Babu
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