Originally posted by Axr2
I haven't cloned with RMAN. But logically speaking - no you can't perform a restore to a machine which doesn't have the required database software. If you don't have 8i installed on the new machine, how are you gonna bring the database up?
Well, that's the thing. I don't want to bring it up. I just want to mount it and run the upgrade to 9i scripts.

The OS was the other main concern. They're both AIX, but different versions.

The database is really tiny, but I can't use exp/imp because it has LONG RAW columns.... hmmmm

Any other ideas would be great!