Re: rman duplicate to new version

On Nov 29, 3:14 am, sybrandb <sybra..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 12:02 am, "jerni..._at_nospam.kochind.com"
>
> <jerni..._at_kochind.com> wrote:
> > I have a production database that is 10.2.0.1 on Solaris
> > My test database is 10.2.0.3
>
> > Is it possible to do an rman duplicate to copy the data between the
> > two?
>
> > So far I haven't had much luck.
>
> The obvious answer is you need to overwrite the test database,
> duplicate it from source and upgrade it to 10.2.0.3.
> But I think it is generally unwise to run a test database on a higher
> version. You never know what won't work anymore in your lower version
> production database.
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

When you say 'duplicate it from source', can that be done from rman?

We normally don't, but we are about to upgrade production to that version. Received on Thu Nov 29 2007 - 08:15:30 CST