Dear Experts,
I would kindly like to ask you, if anyone has already gathered experience with the new RMAN cross
platform restore feature of Oracle 12c ?
We will need to make a hardware move from Solaris x86_64 to Solaris SPARC. During my research,
I found Note 1848918 - SAP System Copy on Oracle Solaris with Oracle Database
which is even more confusing, as it says:
"The Backup/Restore procedure also available for a homogeneous system copy can not be used due to different endianness of the mentioned platforms."
This is perfectly true, as Solaris x86_64 is little endian and SPARC is big endian.
Furthermore, the note says exactly the opposite:
"With Oracle Database 12c SAP permits the use of Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) for Cross platform backup/restore as mentioned in SAP note 105047"
I have also checked Note 105047, but that note couldn't be more general in the explanation !!
Furthermore, I would kindly like to ask, if anyone knows some documentation or procedure on how
to perform such a cross-platform restore using RMAN ? I didn't find anything, I only found guidance
on the approach, if using RMAN directly:
Transporting Data Across Platforms
But anyway, I wasn't able to find a word about doing this with BRBACKUP / BRRESTORE...
Many thanks for enlighting me!