Yes. It's possible. I've done it in Linux. It's pretty straightforward. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2013, at 5:33 PM, "Hubler, Daniel" <daniel.hubler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Having some debate here as to whether the following idea should work. > Looking for input. . . . . . > Setting up contracts for DR testing at hot site. > Going to contract for a single AIX node and > use that to restore the database of our 2-node RAC. > > Thinking is that we should be able to build that single AIX node, > without all the extra "RAC stuff" (private network, switch, etc.) > and restore the RAC software from our backup tape. > > So we would basically be restoring only one node of the 2-node RAC. > > And then successfully restore/recover the database from an RMAN backup. > > Can we make this work? > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l