RMAN 11G : Import Catalog (Doc ID 419173.1)

Last updated on MARCH 25, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

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For the purposes of this document, the following fictitious environment is used as an example to describe the procedure:

2 Target databases : V110 and DUPLV110
2 RMAN Catalogs in the same catalog database V110
Catalog 1 : Owner RMAN, registered database V110
Catalog 2 : Owner CAT1, registered database DUPLV110
Catalog TNS connection: v110, v102, wrong_v110
dblink: DBLINK_MNTDC7

Description of the RMAN Import Catalog feature introduced in Oracle 11G.

The new IMPORT CATALOG command allows one catalog schema to be imported into another either the whole schema or just the metadata for specific databases in the catalog.