From: Frank van Bortel on
On 05/11/2010 09:02 AM, sandeep pande wrote:
> On May 6, 6:03 pm, moongeegee<moongee...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> The target is Window server 2003 with 10g 10.2.0.2.0 oracle and the
>> Auxiliary is Windows XP with 10g 10.2.0.1.0 oracle.
>> Can I user rman duplicate database to duplicate database from target
>> to auxiliary ?
>
> Hi,
> In this case you can not use "rman duplicate" but for duplicating you
> can use "rman convert database"
> see http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/dbxptrn.htm
>

Gues I wasn't clear, but the catch-22 I was referring to is an RMAN clone.

Did you test/try/exercise for yourself, ever, or is this bookshelf
knowledge?

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Regards,

Frank van Bortel