You can upgrade the 816 catalog to be 817 compliant with the command
RMAN upgrade catalog
You need to be connected to an 8.1.7 target first to do this. It effectively
recreates two packages
DBMS_RCVMAN and DBMS_RCVCAT
John
-Original Message-
Sent: 20 November 2002 16:39
To: Multiple
DBAs,
I experienced following while trying to test interoperatibility
between 816 and 817.
Any comments, experiences?
Target - 817 Catalog - 816
rman rcvcat rman/rman@rcatqual
connect target
register database;
.
RMAN-06429: RCVCAT
Rachna,
you forgot one more test:
816 version of Rman against an 817 target database using an 816 version of
catalog - should work ok.
other than that, your test results are as expected. you can use a lower
version of rman against a higher version of the catalog, but the opposite is
not true.
Rachna - Yes, RMAN is VERY picky about Oracle versions. What I understand is
that you are trying to use an 816 catalog to back up an 817 database. I
think that you usually must keep your catalog at the level of the target
database or higher. In other words, you could use an 817 catalog db to back
On page 204 of Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (available on Amazon!) the
answer is written thusly:
When using database version 8.1.7
When using RMAN version 8.1.x
Catalog Schema requirement:
Oracle 8.1.x (or later) catalog database, with a catalog schema created by
an RMAN version that is
Hi,
I've installed RMAN 8.1.7 with my db on NT. I also
use it to back up another NT cluster instance, also
8.1.7. I also wanted to use it to backup a HPUX 8.1.5
instance but i get an error Target DB is not
compatible with version of RMAN. Now I get two
answers from Oracle. The first one
