Duplicate for Standby fails with RMAN-05535 when directory path is the same as primary (Doc ID 783113.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 23, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

If you are creating a standby using the duplicate command in RMAN with the same directory structure as the primary, it will fail with the following error for the datafiles:

RMAN-03002 failure of duplicate command.
RMAN-05001 auxiliary file name /u01/../user01.dbf conflicts with a file used by the target database.

and the following error for the redologs:

ORA-19527 physical standby redo must be renamed.
RMAN-05535 All standby logfiles were not created.

Solution

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