During duplication of my Oracle database 11g R2 in RHEL 5.8 (64) from one host to another host from RMAN backup sets, I end up receiving the above error from DUPLICATE command. Here is procedure and solution that solved my problem
As part of preparation for duplication process I Copied the backup sets to the disk location‘/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/’, then catalog the entire location. Here is the output of the CATALOG command
RMAN> catalog start with ‘/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/’;
searching for all files that match the pattern /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/
List of Files Unknown to the Database
=====================================
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/archivelog/2013_10_02/o1_mf_1_20_94qm7mt5_.arc
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/control02.ctl
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/backupset/2013_10_02/o1_mf_annnn_TAG20131002T103621_94qm7oky_.bkp
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/backupset/2013_10_02/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20131002T103424_94qm40hl_.bkp
Do you really want to catalog the above files (enter YES or NO)? yes
cataloging files…
cataloging done
List of Cataloged Files
=======================
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/archivelog/2013_10_02/o1_mf_1_20_94qm7mt5_.arc
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/backupset/2013_10_02/o1_mf_annnn_TAG20131002T103621_94qm7oky_.bkp
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/backupset/2013_10_02/o1_mf_nnndf_TAG20131002T103424_94qm40hl_.bkp
List of Files Which Where Not Cataloged
=======================================
File Name: /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/control02.ctl
RMAN-07519: Reason: Error while cataloging. See alert.log.
RMAN>
After finishing other settings finally I prepared the script file with DUPLICATE command and other options inside, I launched the RAMN, I connected to target database and auxiliary instance successful then executed the script. Here is where RMAN threw back errors as follows:
[[email protected] ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=HRMDB
[[email protected] ~]$ rman
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 – Production on Wed Oct 2 11:09:38 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
RMAN> connect target sys
target database Password:
connected to target database: HRMDB (DBID=1167958271)
RMAN> connect auxiliary [email protected]
auxiliary database Password:
connected to auxiliary database: HRMTEST (not mounted)
RMAN> @duplicate
RMAN> run{
2> allocate auxiliary channel aux1 device type disk;
3> allocate auxiliary channel aux2 device type disk;
4> duplicate target database to HRMTEST;
5> }
… (Some output removed)
Starting restore at 02-OCT-13
channel aux1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel aux1: restoring control file
channel aux1: reading from backup piece /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMDB/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
channel aux1: ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMDB/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
ORA-19505: failed to identify file “/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMDB/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp”
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
failover to previous backup
released channel: aux1
released channel: aux2
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 10/02/2013 11:18:25
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-06026: some targets not found – aborting restore
RMAN-06024: no backup or copy of the control file found to restore
RMAN>
RMAN> **end-of-file**
It is interesting that RMAN is not aware of the this backup piece even after catalog the entire location
RMAN> list backuppiece ‘/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp’;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of list command at 10/02/2013 11:27:01
RMAN-20260: backup piece not found in the repository
RMAN-06092: error while looking up backup piece
RMAN>
Based on the suggestion from the site, I decided to catalog individual backup piece from that location as follow
RMAN> catalog backuppiece ‘/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp’;
cataloged backup piece
backup piece handle=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp RECID=56 STAMP=827753278
RMAN>
Now, RMAN is aware of the backup piece
RMAN> list backuppiece ‘/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp’;
List of Backup Pieces
BP Key BS Key Pc# Cp# Status Device Type Piece Name
——- ——- — — ———– ———– ———-
56 29 1 2 AVAILABLE DISK /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
RMAN>
Finally the DUPLICATE command completed successful
RMAN> @duplicate
RMAN> run{
2> allocate auxiliary channel aux1 device type disk;
3> allocate auxiliary channel aux2 device type disk;
4> duplicate target database to HRMTEST;
5> }
… (Some output removed)
channel aux1: starting datafile backup set restore
channel aux1: restoring control file
channel aux1: reading from backup piece /u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMDB/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
channel aux1: errors found reading piece handle=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMDB/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp
channel aux1: failover to piece handle=/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/HRMTEST/autobackup/2013_10_02/o1_mf_s_827750184_94qm7skq_.bkp tag=TAG20131002T103624
channel aux1: restored backup piece 1
channel aux1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:03
output file name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/HRMTEST/control01.ctl
output file name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/HRMTEST/control02.ctl
output file name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/HRMTEST/control03.ctl
Finished restore at 02-OCT-13
… (Some output removed)
contents of Memory Script:
{
Alter clone database open resetlogs;
}
executing Memory Script
database opened
Finished Duplicate Db at 02-OCT-13
released channel: aux1
released channel: aux2
RMAN>
RMAN> **end-of-file**
