RE: RMAN Duplicate from lower patchset to higher patchsets

  • From: "Vishal Gupta" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:03:00 +0100

Anyone got any ideas ?
 
Regards,
Vishal Gupta
http://www.vishalgupta.com   

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Vishal Gupta
Sent: Wed 22/04/2009 23:25
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RMAN Duplicate from lower patchset to higher patchsets



Hi,

 

I am sure lot of people might have faced this problem. From what i have 
researched so far, RMAN does not support duplication (i am not talking restore 
here, but duplicate clone) between different version of oracle. 

 

So if you have a very critical system, then obvious thing to do would be 
upgrade dev, then test , then production. But let's throw another complication 
into the picture, if lot of your dev and test instances are refreshed from 
production RMAN backup on a daily basis. Then you can't really upgrade dev/test 
 first and leave production, until your testing is finished. RMAN does not 
allow duplicating a database from older version to newer version.

 

 

Though there is a procedure to restore database and then upgrade/downgrade

 

eg.

restore database;

recover database;

alter database open resetlogs upgrade/downgrade;

now follow the downgrade/upgrade steps;

 

 

As anyone found any way of duplicating database using RMAN from say 10.2.0.3 to 
10.2.0.4?

 

Regards,
Vishal Gupta

 

 

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