I think I already know the answer to this but thought it worth checking if
anyone has come up with a solution.
We have an old 10g database running on big endian Solaris on Fujitsu. It, along
with the hardware, is due to be retired soon.
We've been taking rman backups for 10+ years and maybe 2x a year need to do an
RMAN restore to another server of some random point in the past 7 years. Our
directive is to find a way to do this restore to Red Hat Linux since we're
getting rid of all our Solaris servers. I didn't realize we had an endianness
problem until we got 10g on Red Hat 4 successfully installed along with an
older netbackup agent and tried restoring the controlfile (getting all the
older versions took quite a while). At which point it was "Duh! "
Is there any way to perform such a restore or am I, as I suspect, out of luck?
TIA,
Jay Miller
Sr. Oracle DBA
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