Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.4 and later Information in this document applies to any platform.
GOAL
ASM diskgroup upgrade successful to 12.1.0.2 but DB upgrade from 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2 failed. ASM diskgroups (DATA and FRA) compatible.asm and compatible.rdbms were set to 12.1.0.2.
Need support on how to return database back to 11.2.0.4 because backups are on the FRA which are at the 12.1.0.2 settings.
SOLUTION
Action Plan
After recreating the 11.2 ASM diskgroups to restore to continue the action plan.
From the old server we have image copies of the database files to copy to the new server to recover with. There are incremental level 1 backupsets and archivelog backupsets. The database had been opened resetlogs under 12c so we don't want the archivelogs on disk to revert back to 11g. We will use only the archivelogs in backupsets since we know they are from 11g. We've identified which autobackup controlfile can be used to restore from and then catalog the datafile copies and backupsets into the controlfile in the new 11g +DG locations.
1. RMAN> RESTORE CONTROLFILE to '+prod1_02/testdb/control01a.ctl' ' FROM '+DG/c-xxxxx-iiiii-yy';
2. RMAN target/ rman> set dbid=12359294 > startup mount pfile = ''; > configure device type disk parallelism 200 backup type to copy; > backup copy of database format '+prod1_02';
3. >backup force backupset all format '+prod1_fra';