Rman Backups Failing with RMAN-20004 (Doc ID 1254144.1)

Last updated on MARCH 17, 2015

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 to 11.2.0.2 [Release 8.1.7 to 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Database is in 10g.
Recovery catalog has been configured.
Production Database has been cloned and a connection has been made from the clone to Catalog database using rman.
DBID of the clone instance has not been changed, (so is identical with source DBID).

Rman backup fails with

RMAN-00571:
RMAN-00569:
RMAN-00571:
RMAN-03002: failure of resync command at 01/5/2009 08:10:05
RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database
RMAN-20004: target database name does not match name in recovery catalog

Changes

Production Database has been cloned and a connection has been made from the clone to Catalog database using rman.

Cause

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