And just as I post the message.... I find the answer. I was doing rman target=/ Works when I did rman target=sys/robert Robert! Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press) ----- Original Message ---- From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 9:47:41 PM Subject: ORA-01031 with RMAN Duplicate Ok, I'll admit, I'm stumped. I'm trying to do an active database duplication between two different servers. I've got the AUX instance setup and I can successfully connect to it from the target database box and query v$instance. I can start RMAN, connecting successfully to the target and the aux instance. However when I start the duplicate, It fails with this error: ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server ORA-17627: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server (full output at the end of this email)... So, I can connect with SQLPlus but the duplicate fails.... any ideas? ======================================================================================= RMAN> duplicate target database to 'dup11g' from active database spfile nofilenamecheck; Starting Duplicate Db at 07-APR-08 using target database control file instead of recovery catalog allocated channel: ORA_AUX_DISK_1 channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1: SID=170 device type=DISK contents of Memory Script: { backup as copy reuse file 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0\DB_1\DATABASE\SPFILETSPUPG11G.ORA' auxiliary format 'D:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0.6\DB_1\DATABASE\SPFILEDUP11G.ORA' ; sql clone "alter system set spfile= ''D:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0.6\DB_1\DATABASE\SPFILEDUP11G.ORA''"; } executing Memory Script Starting backup at 07-APR-08 allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1 channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=115 device type=DISK RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 04/07/2008 21:42:36 RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_DISK_1 channel at 04/07/2008 21:42:36 ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server ORA-17627: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges ORA-17629: Cannot connect to the remote database server Robert G. Freeman Author: Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Feature Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com (Oracle Press)