Re: could RMAN backup different platforms?

On 26 Jul 2006 13:16:10 -0700, "Andreas Piesk" <a.piesk_at_gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>i'm already backing up several RACs. to utilize all nodes the backup is
>peformed by a non-RAC server which allocate channels to the RAC nodes
>and transfers the backupsets to a TSM system. works great so far, for
>linux. now i want to to the same with RACs on AIX. do i need a non-RAC
>server running AIX to perform the backup for the AIX RACs or can the
>linux server do the job? to make it short:
>
>can rman on AIX back up databases on linux and vice versa? any links,
>notes, etc. are welcome.
>
>or is my setup silly and there's a better way to do it?
>
>regards,
>-ap

Actually this is the perfect question to demonstrate why many of the questions here are redundant.
There is no version posted (and the answer is version dependent) and you clearly didn't try to read any RMAN documentation and/or release notes and/or new feature document. In short: you want others to do *your* work.

The answer is 9i rman has no cross-platform capability and 10g rman has.
Please verify it for yourself by looking it up in the docs.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA