In order to make a recovery catalog using a pluggable database as part of your container database you should follow these instructions special notes * PDB can act as a recovery catalog * Recovery catalog is not supported when connected to pluggable database * You must register the whole CDB agains the PDB catalog Creating pluggable database for RMAN catalog bash-4.2$ echo $ORACLE_SID CDB bash-4.2$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Thu Jul 28 15:38:17 2016 Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options SQL> create pluggable database rman admin user rman identified by rman; SQL> alter session set container = rman; Session altered. SQL> alter database open; Database altered. Preparing specific tablespace SQL> conn sys@RMAN ...
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