[CentOS] restore

Tue Jul 29 15:55:29 UTC 2008
Marc-Andre Levesque <marc-andre.levesque at genizon.com>

>> - The control files has been transfered from AIX5.3 to a Linux Machine !!
>
>This is an Oracle issue and not a CentOS issue.
>
>Please note that, typically, Oracle binary files are not portable between
>hardware and OS platforms.  When I used to DBA Oracle (Oracle 8; that
>long ago) we were told by Oracle that files were not portable (eg between
>HPUX and Solaris, or Solaris and Linux).

This definitely belongs to an Oracle mailing list. However, please look at possible issues between Big/Little Endian architectures. I've seen this when moving between different archs.

MAL