Revive RMAN: Mastering the Art of Resuming Failed Duplicate Operations
Hey Oracle DBAs! It's been a while, Oracle community! But I'm back with a helpful post. :-) Today, I faced an issue while performing an RMAN duplicate to build out a standby database (Oracle version 19.25) on an ExaCS VM. The database is 110 TB in size. I was doing an active duplicate over the WAN for 2 days. Everything was going smoothly until it reached ~94% completion... and then it FAILED!! I didn't want to risk restarting the entire RMAN duplicate process again out of concern that the same issue would occur. Here's my error: RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 04/10/2025 09:57:48 RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script ORA-19875: multisection restore or copy not complete ...