Re: RMAN compatibility

On 22 May 2003 04:01:28 -0700, i_rahim_at_hotmail.com (Imran Rahim) wrote:

>I know there is a compatibility table but its not making sense now :
>I have 8.1.7.0.0 databases
>1 is the target, the other hosts the rman catalog (called CATALOG)
>The rman exe is 8.1.7.0.1
>
>the catalog compatibility found by querying CONFIG says 080004
>
>Yet, when I try to connect to target I get the following:
>
>------------------>
>RMAN> connect catalog rman/rman
>
>RMAN-06008: connected to recovery catalog database
>: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service
>
>RMAN> connect target sys/change_on_install_at_ditmig.world
>
>RMAN-06099: error occurred in source file: krmk.pc, line: 20675
>RMAN-06097: text of failing SQL statement: declare vsn varchar2 ( 20 ) ; begin ;
>RMAN-06003: ORACLE error from target database: ORA-04068: existing state of pacd
>ORA-04067: not executed, package body "SYS.DBMS_RCVMAN" does not exist
>ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called
>ORA-06512: at line 1
>
>RMAN-06438: error executing package DBMS_RCVMAN in TARGET database
>RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
>RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
>RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
>RMAN-06429: TARGET database is not compatible with this version of RMAN
>
>RMAN> exit

I doubt whether 8.0.4 is not too old. Is there any reason why you can't simply upgrade the catalog?

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 13:08:14 CDT