Re: RAC to NON-RAC and RMAN...

Been there, done that. You won't get any problems - just need to take care of your init.ora parameters. You will have additional online redo log groups and undo tablespace(s) unused and can drop them after restore to save some space.
I'm a bit late to follow-up but I haven't seen anyone replying.

On 12/12/06, Taufner, Kevin <Kevin.Taufner_at_assurant.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> Quick question for anyone who can share some insight.
>
> We want to test our backup strategy and ensure we have a valid set of
> backups from our production environment. PROD is on a AIX 5L system running
> 9i RAC w/RAW filesystems. These are all LPARS on the system physical
> system, so there's no issue with regard to versioning or OS patch levels.
>
> However, the only environment we have at the moment to test restores on is
> a Development system. DEV is a non-RAC environment.
>
> I plan on creating an AUX instance on the DEV system to test the PROD
> restore for a single tablespace on (there isn't enough space on DEV to test
> the whole thing).
>
> However, I'm not familiar enough with RAC to be able to say I'm even going
> to be able to do this without any issues.
>
> Has anyone tried this before, or could point me to some good documentation
> that might help?
>
> I expect there might be some control file issues, or possibly system
> issues, since none of the RAC executables are on the DEV environment...
>
>
> - Kevin Taufner
> *Oracle DBA*
> * *
> x7512
>
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