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
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Sent: 20 November 2002 16:39
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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 eq
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
u
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.
