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RMAN-07536: command not allowed when connected to a Pluggable Database (Doc ID 2956174.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 06, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

++ Connecting via rman to CDB$ROOT and running commands fail with below error showing rman is connected to PDB instead of CDB$ROOT :

rman target 'sys@"<scan_name>.<domain_name>:1521/<db_unique_name>.<domain_name>:DEDICATED"'

Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Jun 7 13:38:56 2023

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target database Password:
connected to target database: DBA21CDB (DBID=1393061330)

RMAN> configure compression algorithm 'low';

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of configure command at 06/07/2023 13:39:23
RMAN-07536: command not allowed when connected to a Pluggable Database

Cause

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