Re: Migrating large database between platforms: using snapshots

Vsevolod Afanassiev wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks
>
> I believe it is not possible to clone a database from one platform to
> another using RMAN.

You might want to alter your belief system. http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/DuplicateDatabaseUsingRMAN9i.php http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14214/chapter1.htm#sthref601

And even were that not true surely you know you can restore from an RMAN backup.

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Daniel Morgan
University of Washington
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group