When you say "completely different hardware", do you mean across hardware platforms? What Oracle versions? What hardware platforms? -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. --Richard P. Feynman, 1918-1988 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of oracle Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:09 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Duplicate production RAC to a staging/test RAC hi, Just wondering if anyone had any insights/tips/pitfalls regarding how to duplicate a database from a production RAC environment to a testing RAC environment. I need a way to make a complete copy of a database in a 3 node RAC and put it into a 2 node RAC on completely different hardware - we give the developers and testing groups a complete copy of production to play with. Today it's all standalone instances but shortly I will need to migrate these environments to the new RAC environments. thanks -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l