Rman dupicate db skip tablespace not working reserved words with quoates

Question

This is how the script looks like
set newname for datafile '/oracle/oracle10.2/oradata/smalldb/users01.dbf' to '/oracle/staging/TEST1/users01.dbf';
set newname for datafile '/oracle/oracle10.2/oradata/smalldb/system01.dbf' to '/oracle/staging/TEST1/system01.dbf';
set newname for datafile '/oracle/oracle10.2/oradata/smalldb/sysaux01.dbf' to '/oracle/staging/TEST1/sysaux01.dbf';
set newname for datafile '/oracle/oracle10.2/oradata/smalldb/undotbs01.dbf' to '/oracle/staging/TEST1/undotbs01.dbf';
duplicate target database to TEST123
SKIP TABLESPACE 'USERS2', 'USERS3', 'CATALOG'
PFILE= '/oracle/staging/test123init.ora'
LOGFILE
'/oracle/staging/TEST1/redo01.log' SIZE 4096K reuse,
'/oracle/staging/TEST1/redo02.log' SIZE 4096K reuse,
'/oracle/staging/TEST1/redo03.log' SIZE 4096K reuse;
contents of Memory Script:
set until scn 12748962;
set newname for datafile 1 to
"/oracle/staging/TEST1/system01.dbf";
set newname for datafile 2 to
"/oracle/staging/TEST1/undotbs01.dbf";
set newname for datafile 3 to
"/oracle/staging/TEST1/sysaux01.dbf";
set newname for datafile 4 to
"/oracle/staging/TEST1/users01.dbf";
restore
check readonly
clone database
skip tablespace USERS3,
USERS2,
CATALOG ;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00601: fatal error in recovery manager
RMAN-03012: fatal error during compilation of command
RMAN-03028: fatal error code for command Duplicate Db : 600
RMAN-00600: internal error, arguments [8049] [] [] [] []
**RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "catalog": expecting one of: "double-quoted-string, identifier, single-quoted-string"**
RMAN-01007: at line 16 column 2 file: Memory Script
I tried single quote and double quote but it did not work.
Any idea what is going wrong here ?
-Rohit

Answer 1

What oracle version? Check the DB alert log files for information about the internal error. Other thing is RMAN may be getting confused with the 'CATALOG' tablespace with it being a reserved word in RMAN in generating the internal script - may be a bug.
See in the internal script:
skip tablespace USERS3,
USERS2,
CATALOG ;The internal script gets an error once it reaches CATALOG even though you've quoted it in the original script. For example:
RMAN> list copy of tablespace CATALOG;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "catalog": expecting one of: "double-quoted-string, identifier, single-quoted-string"
RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 25 file: standard inputwhereas with quotes should work (untested).
Edited by: Stellios on Oct 14, 2009 11:37 AM