Re: Backup after upgrading to 19C and converting to PDB

Even if you could, that's probably a bucketload of archivelogs to push through in the event of a crisis, all the time a manager will be at your desk going "Are we done yet?", "Are we done yet?", "Are we done yet?" :-)

I'd be taking that post-upgrade backup....

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:20 AM Jeffrey Beckstrom <jbeckstrom_at_gcrta.org> wrote:

> We are running Oracle EBS on 11.2.0.4. We will be upgrading the database
> to 19C and converting it to a PDB which is a requirement for EBS on 19C.
>
> My question is, do we need to backup the entire database following the 19C
> upgrade and conversion to PDB or in the event of post upgrade failure
> (upgrade is done and turned over to the users when something happens hours
> later), could we restore the RMAN backup from before the upgrade and roll
> the archive logs forward through the upgrade and PDB conversion to a
> particular log sequence number?
>
> Jeffrey Beckstrom
> Lead Database Administrator
> Information Technology Department
> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
> 1240 W. 6th Street
> Cleveland, Ohio 44113
>
>

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