Technically, it *should* be possible to do it in 10.2 as well. Just not automated in a single duplicated command. But all the duplicate does is a backup as copy, and then recovers that. I haven't tested it ... Would be worth investigating, though Stefan On Jan 25, 2008 11:14 PM, sol beach <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm reading "RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g" By Darl Kuhn, Sam > Alapati & Arup Nanda. > (Excellent book!!!) > > It notes that V11 RMAN can now duplicate a DB without having any existing > backup. > The source of the duplication is an active database. COOL! > > Does anyone know if V11 RMAN can interoperate against lower version > databases? > Unfortunately I'm in no position to test this capability myself. > > TIA! > -- ========================= Stefan P Knecht Senior Consultant Infrastructure Managed Services Trivadis AG Europa-Strasse 5 CH-8152 Glattbrugg Phone +41-44-808 70 20 Fax +41-808 70 12 Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.trivadis.com OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA =========================