Bill, if you reference v$transportable_platform you'll notice that Oracle doesn't distinguish between these versions. It's all referenced as "Microsoft Windows x86 64-bit" i.e. "the same" On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > ... my question is whether RMAN sees these two Operating Systems as the same platform or are they different enough that I will have to use export/import via the datapump to make this move. > > Thanks. > > Bill Wagman > Univ. of California at Davis > IET Campus Data Center > wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx > (530) 754-6208 > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Alex Fatkulin, http://afatkulin.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfatkulin -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l