Re: RMAN restore to lower point release/different OS?
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:51:29 GMT
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:50:21 -0800, Malcolm Dunnett <nothome_at_spammers.are.scum> wrote:
>This is probably going to sound like a very weird thing to do, but
>please bear with me for a minute:
[...]
>
>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.
AFAIK, you cannot use RMAN restore between different OS's. Exports you can, as they're 'logical' not 'physical' (as in, don't contain any OS specific data)
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We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR2, 10g2RAC on RH4/RH5 and Solaris 10 (Sparc)
We use RMAN and remote catalog for backups
Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 10:51:29 CST