RMAN 11g/12c Client compatibility

oracleoracle-11g-r2oracle-12crman

I'm having a Recovery catalog database 12c version. While I'm trying to register the target database (11g) with the catalog I get the following error:

Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on Fri Aug 14 13:03:44 2015

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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-06429: TARGET database is not compatible with this version of RMAN
RMAN-06618: RMAN client and database release mismatch; indicated database release is 11.2.0.4

I have checked the compatibility matrix, it says the RMAN client and the target database has to be the same version. But I'm using Catalog as 12c database therefore the client is 12 as well. Should I use RMAN 11g client to connect to the target? If yes, How should I do that?

Best Answer

As per compatibility matrix, the target and the RMAN client version has to be the same. The workaround is connect to the catalog database from the target database ( whose version is lower than that of the RMAN client) and register the database in the catalog.

Thanks!

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