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Restore from ealier version rman backup, on Windows.

edited Jul 1, 2020 5:08AM in Database Backup and Recovery (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered

Practicing recovering from a busted upgrade (12.1.0.2 SE2 to 19c SE2).

So, before launching DBUA to upgrade the db, I take an rman offline full backup.

Then, after DBUA has done its thing, I decide I need to restore the database back to 12.1, using that backup.

On *nix it would be simple enough. I'd shut the db down. Modify /etc/oratab and call oraenv to reset ORACLE_HOME and PATH back to the 12.1 home, fire up rman, and do the restore/recover.

But on windows, the database runs under control of the windows service, which now says, in effect, ORACLE_HOME is at the 19c home.  So I'm thinking I need to do the following:

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