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RMAN-12012: Multiple Records For Disk Parallelism Found In Catalog (Doc ID 436121.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.1 [Release 9.2 to 10.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

The RMAN "show all" command returns a RMAN-12012 error such as follows:

 

RMAN> show all;

using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO 'DISK';
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';
RMAN-00571: ==============================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS 
RMAN-00571: ==============================================
RMAN-03002: failure of show command at 01/01/01 00:00:00
RMAN-12010: automatic channel allocation initialization failed
RMAN-12012: multiple records for DISK parallelism found in catalog

Cause

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