Greetings Dennis, Yes, You are right, thats the one, I couldn't remember the artcile name. For TTS, basically we will be ftping the datafiles. So I was thinking that if its possbile for TTS, why not for COLD Backup and STANDBY Database (standby control file ) and apply all the Archived logs to bring it to current time stamp. Need to research more on the Byte order the article talks about..... Regards & Thanks On 4/24/06, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > BN, > > Perhaps you were recalling the announcement that Transportable Tablespaces > would be able to be converted across platforms? > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week16_10gdba.html > My understanding is this feature is "yet to be implemented". > > Dennis Williams > > > On 4/22/06, David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > n yo cant do standby between different os's > > > > > > On 21/04/06, BN <bnsarma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Greetings > > > > > > > > > Oralce Version 9.2.0.5 > > > > > > ITs Friday evening. Want to confirm that a , my understanding is > > > > > > Cold (Any Backup except exp) Backup Taken on HP-UX 64 bit cannot be > > > restored on a SUN Box to setup a Standby Database > > > > > > -- Regards & Thanks BN