Category Archives: RMAN Database Error Messages

RMAN-20001: target database not found in recovery catalog

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RMAN-20001: target database not found in recovery catalog
Cause: Target database is not found in the recovery catalog.
Action: Make sure that the target database is registered in the recovery catalog.

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RMAN-20000: abnormal termination of job step

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RMAN-20000: abnormal termination of job step
Cause: A job step encountered an error and could not recover.
Action: This error should be followed by other errors indicating the cause of the problem.

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RMAN-12017: could not locate pieces of backupset key string

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RMAN-12017: could not locate pieces of backupset key string
Cause: No copies of the specified backupset key can be accessed on any of the allocated channels.
Action: Allocate additional channels on other nodes of the cluster, or if the backup pieces have been deleted, then use the CROSSCHECK BACKUP command to correct the recovery catalog entries.

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RMAN-12016: using channel string

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RMAN-12016: using channel string
Cause: This is an informational message.
Action: No action required.

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RMAN-12015: configuration for string channel number is ignored

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RMAN-12015: configuration for string channel number is ignored
Cause: This is an informational message. Parallelism for the device is less than the associated channel number.
Action: To use this configuration, increase parallelism for this device. to clear this configuration, use CONFIGURE CHANNEL ... CLEAR command.

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RMAN-12014: multiple records for default channel configuration for string found in catalog

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RMAN-12014: multiple records for default channel configuration for string found in catalog
Cause: Configuration for the channel is not consistent.
Action: Re-run CONFIGURE CHANNEL command to configure the channel.

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RMAN-12013: multiple records for string channel number found in catalog

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RMAN-12013: multiple records for string channel number found in catalog
Cause: Configuration for the channel is not consistent.
Action: Re-run CONFIGURE CHANNEL command to configure this channel.

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RMAN-12012: multiple records for string parallelism found in catalog

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RMAN-12012: multiple records for string parallelism found in catalog
Cause: Configuration for device parallelism is not consistent.
Action: Re-run CONFIGURE PARALLELISM command for device to set parallelism.

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RMAN-12011: multiple records for default device type found in catalog

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RMAN-12011: multiple records for default device type found in catalog
Cause: Configuration for default device type not consistent.
Action: Re-run CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE command to set device type.

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RMAN-12010: automatic channel allocation initialization failed

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RMAN-12010: automatic channel allocation initialization failed
Cause: This message should be accompanied by other error messages indicating the cause of the error.
Action: See accompanying messages.

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