RMAN 11g Import catalog fails RMAN-6429 (Doc ID 457392.1)

In this Document
  Symptoms
  Cause
  Solution

Platforms: 1-914CU;

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Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.1.0.6 to 11.1.0.6 - Release: 11.1 to 11.1
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Attempt to import a 9.2 RMAN recovery catalog schema into an 11g RMAN recovery catalog schema fails:

$ rman catalog rman11g/rman11g

Recovery Manager: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Jul 26 18:59:37 2007

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connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> import catalog rman92/rman92@v92 ;

Starting import catalog at 26-JUL-07
connected to source recovery catalog database
PL/SQL package RMAN92.DBMS_RCVCAT version 09.02.00 in IMPCAT database is too old
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of import catalog command at 07/26/2007 18:59:58
RMAN-06429: IMPCAT database is not compatible with this version of RMAN

Cause

RMAN needs connectivity to the source and destination catalogs for the import command.

In this example, a connection is made to the 11g recovery catalog schema and a connection is made to the v9.2 recovery catalog schema. The intent is to import the v9.2 schema catalog. The RMAN executable is 11g.

Per the documentation: "When using IMPORT CATALOG, the version of the source recovery catalog schema must be equal to the current version of the destination recovery catalog schema. If the source catalog schema is a lower version, then upgrade it to the current version before importing the schema. "Upgrading the Recovery Catalog" explains how to upgrade."

Reference

Bug 11830163 - RMAN-06429: IMPCAT DATABASE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION OF RMAN