From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Nov 22 05:59:31 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAMBxUK06448 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:59:30 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAMBxUB06443 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:59:30 -0600 Received: from localhost (freelists-183.iquest.net [206.53.239.183]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 5B86C72C6E9; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:05:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([206.53.239.180]) by localhost (misc.avenirtech.net [206.53.239.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26398-115; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:05:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 56AF172C25A; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:05:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric Buddelmeijer" To: Subject: RE: Samba and 10g - and NT Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:03:29 +0100 Organization: Elegant Application Services MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thread-Index: AcTOKyXvEEzKShF3S6KQb1soOFAz0ACV27NAAAFiekA= X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <8BA4F739A97DFB4D9A10D92A25A77F750995CD@exchange-2003.rsmbdom2.local> Message-Id: <20041122120331.1E45547B11@orange.qinip.net> X-archive-position: 12543 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Eric.Buddelmeijer@elegant.nl Precedence: normal Reply-To: Eric.Buddelmeijer@elegant.nl X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at avenirtech.net I think you missed the upgrade to 10G. I believe the rman files in 10G are transportable (and usable) over different operating systems. In 9.2 they are not. And although you use samba for transporting files, oracle knows nothing about that and creates NT-files when you make a backup and tries to read Linux files when restoring the database. If you do upgrade to 10G, you can also use transportable tablespaces which are transportable over operating systems (only in 10, not in 9.2) if the tablespaces are 'self contained'. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week16_10gdba.html for a first look on the TTS feature. Maybe the answer to your last question is yes, rethink ;-). Eric Buddelmeijer. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l