RMAN Active Duplicate on RAC fails with ORA-17629 and ORA-17627: ORA-12154

(Doc ID 1982003.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 01, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 and later
Oracle Net Services - Version 11.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

RMAN active duplication of RAC database fails on restart operation with the following error messages:

RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 02/17/2015 15:12:11
RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on t0 channel at 02/17/2015 15:11:48
ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server
ORA-17627: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server

Cause

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