Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Johne_uk" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Migrating Database Instance to new OS Platform Date: 7 Jul 2005 12:59:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1120766352.015677.261900@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.115.136.130 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1120766357 6593 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2005 19:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:59:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.115.136.130; posting-account=aRQsRw0AAAALcCJJchtVOo09IQKECRVt Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:246796 Hi, If I have a cold backup of a 9i database instance taken from Solaris 9 running on a Sun Sparc server, is it possible to restore it to Solaris 9 running on an x86 box (Dell 2850). I'm fairly sure it isn't but have been asked to verify this. Thanks in advance regards John