RMAN restore to lower point release/different OS?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:50:21 -0800
Message-ID: <4994a7b2$1_at_flight>
This is probably going to sound like a very weird thing to do, but please bear with me for a minute:
I have an Oracle 10.2.0.4 database running on RedHat Linux on an HP Itanium server. I'm playing around with the possibility of copying the database to a VMS 8.3 Alphaserver (for disaster recovery scenarios).
I have a level 0 plus incremental backups of the database from the Linux server. I copied these files to the VMS server and used RMAN to do a "restore database". This ran with no errors (of course I had made sure that the VMS system had compatible logical names and directories to match the directory structure on the linux system) and restored all the datafiles from the level 0 backup.
When I tried to "recover database" rman appeared to proceed successfully through the application of the incremental backups (ie restoring the changed blocks to the datafiles), it restored the first archived logfile to disk, but when it went to apply that file I got an ORA-00600 error [Kddummy_blkchk].
One of the wrinkles is that the VMS server is currently running Oracle 10.2.0.2 (Oracle hasn't yet released 10.2.0.4 for VMS).
I am able to open the database on VMS by doing a "STARTUP DOWNGRADE". When I check various schemas it appears that the data from the Linux database is present and correct (though possibly inconsistent because of the failure to apply the archived logfiles).
I'm wondering if the ORA-0600 error is due to the difference in database versions or if there is something else wrong with my backup/restore procedure.
Both servers are 64bit database and little-endian, so it seems that in principle there shouldn't be an issue moving the files. I know that Oracle supports moving database files between VMS on Alpha and VMS on Itanium (I've successfully done that numerous times) but I'm not sure if the database running on Linux on Itanium makes a difference. Received on Thu Feb 12 2009 - 16:50:21 CST