Hi, It doesn't work between platforms with different endians. More details on it in MOS: - "Frequently Asked Questions about Restoring Or Duplicating Between Different Versions And Platforms (Doc ID 369644.1)", bulletpoint 6. - "RMAN DUPLICATE/RESTORE/RECOVER Mixed Platform Support (Doc ID 1079563.1)" --- Maris Elsins @MarisElsins <https://twitter.com/MarisElsins> www.facebook.com/maris.elsins On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:58 PM, max scalf <oracle.blog3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > i stumble upon the below link/blog and had a question with regards to > that... > > > http://taliphakanozturken.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/how-to-restore-10g-rman-backup-to-11g/ > > its pretty much restoring a 10g DB to 11g which i knew was possible but > then i read the below part....i got a little confused by it. what the link > suggest we can do the below if our OS platform is different then how dose > it takes care of lets say big endian to little endian conversion...am i > missing something here ?.... > > > *9-* If our 10g and 11g database os platforms are different then you must > run utlmmig.sql script. > > ————–Changing 32 bit to 64 bit————– > SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE > SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE > SQL> SPOOL migrate.log > SQL> @$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlmmig.sql > SQL> SPOOL off > ——————————————- > >