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Hi there,

Comedy of errors, primarily as far as I can tell due to the hideous "Backup" Exec Oracle agent for Linux. Essentially, I can't backup from my active standby with the RMAN catalog until the active standby is registered with the recovery catalog. So, great, I hit RMAN, logon to target and catalog, and do a "register database" and get this rather unusual error:

"RMAN-01005: Mounted control file type must be CURRENT to register the database"

RMAN-01005 is usually something else, so googling "Mounted control file type must be CURRENT to register the database" only returned three links when I quoted the string, one of which seems relevant but was a Japanese forum thread which as far as I could tell after running through an autotranslator, left the authors as stumped as I currently am.

I tried logging onto the primary database and doing an "unregister database" in hopes the duplicate DBIDs was causing the problem, but I continue to get the same error on the active standby.

So how do I sort out this dilemma? I need Backup Exec to backup the standby database. I need to include the recovery catalog in this backup or else restores will not be possible. The standby database needs to be registered to the recovery catalog for this to work. Trying to do so returns an error I can't find a resolution for anywhere. Maybe fixing the last thing frees up the rest to work?

DB is 11.1.0.7.0 running on OEL 5.3 x86_64