Thanks to all who responded. Indeed, upgrading the o/s is to be done shortly as well. Thank you Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 From: nilesh kumar [mailto:nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:58 AM To: afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx Cc: William Wagman; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Rman cloning from Win2008 to WIn2003 I guess, you should not have any problem. I have done the cloning on the same platform using RMAN. Thanks On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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 -- Thanks Nilesh Soni Oracle DBA--OCA 10g Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) 9860584034 *****Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary*****