Re: Oracle 11.2 as RMAN Catalog - My experience

  • From: Bradd Piontek <piontekdd@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:52:32 -0500

I think I would have to dispute one thing
"The version of the RMAN database must be as recent as the most recent
version of any database for which uses it to store its backup information.
 This means the RMAN database needs to be upgraded prior to or simultaneous
with any database which uses it, if the upgrade would otherwise make the
using database more recent."

you can run a 11.1 RMAN catalog database from within a 10g database . I've
done it, it is certified and works just fine. The version of the database,
the catalog version, and version of the rman client are 3 separate entities
when it comes to backing up RMAN.  MOS article 73431.1 explains this pretty
well, but seems to exclude 11.2.

Bradd Piontek
  Pythian
    Love your data

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM, MacGregor, Ian A.
<ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> A couple  of questions.   No insult is meant by the first.
>
> Did you upgrade the catalog?
>
> What happens if you issue
>
> resync catalog;
>
> as an implicit  RMAN statement.
>
> We are running our catalg on 11GR1.  Resync'ing the catalog failed
> intermittently at first., but then worked consistently.
>
> The version of the RMAN database must be as recent as the most recent
> version of any database for which uses it to store its backup information.
>  This means the RMAN database needs to be upgraded prior to or simultaneous
> with any database which uses it, if the upgrade would otherwise make the
> using database more recent.
>
> With the above in mind,  I wonder why this problem has not been raised
> before.  Are people not
> using the catalog?
>
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