Wait till 10g. Tanel.
----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:29 PM > My apologies, I bumped the "send" button. > Stephen - my understanding is that you are correct, the platforms have to be > the same at the binary level - i.e.., both Solaris, both Windows, etc. > > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:20 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > Good catch Stephen. My understanding is that you > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:05 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > More food for thought: > > There is a good chance that the hardware platform is different. I > think that RMAN is not a valid way of changing to a new platform and you > would need to export/import. I'm certain the experts on the list will > correct me if I'm wrong. > > Thanks > Stephen > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/03 11:54AM >>> > Randy > First, you may want to investigate your company's attitude toward > recovering their proprietary data on your personal machine. > I can give you some ideas on your task, but my experience is on > 1)Unix, > and 2) Oracle 8i. > I would recommend you purchase Robert Freeman's book Oracle9i RMAN > Backup > & Recovery. Well worth the money. > In Oracle8i I wasn't able to extract the control file from the RMAN > backup, so I just backed that up separately. But I think Robert's book > describes how to do that. > I never worried about the init.ora file in Oracle8i, relying on the > normal system backup to back that up. You could probably either copy > the > spfile from your production system (if you tell me you don't have > access to > that system, then you'll really concern me about what you are trying to > do) > or create a dummy init.ora to get the instance started. > I don't know if you used the controlfile or catalog backup to create > this > RMAN backup. I use the catalog backup, but found it easier to recover > using > just the controlfile. > The one sticky point is that RMAN will want its backup pieces in the > same > path that it backed them up. I haven't found any way of changing that. > In > Unix you can fool RMAN by creating a link. When you say that you > couldn't > get RMAN to look at the CD drive, that may be the problem you are > encountering. If you are using Windows, perhaps you could find the > drive > letter used to create the backup and use that same drive letter on > your > personal machine. > You can change the location where RMAN will restore the files with > the > SET NEWNAME command for each data file. > RMAN will restore the database with the original instance name. > Hope this is of some assistance. > > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:49 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > I have an online backup of my 9i production database on CD. I want to > restore it to my home PC, which has a completely different file > structure > and an empty database. I did the backup with rman. I spent most of > Saturday trying this and can not even get rman to look at the backup > set on > the CD. I'd be real happy if someone can just explain how to restore > the > spfile and the control file. > > Thanks > Randy > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Steiner, Randy > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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