Hi,
Sometimes You can get “RMAN-20005: target database name is ambiguous ” error.
Details of error are as follows.
RMAN-20005: target database name is ambiguous
Cause: two or more databases in the recovery catalog match this name
Action: None
RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 12/04/2020 14:24:20 RMAN-06004: ORACLE error from recovery catalog database: RMAN-20005: target database name is ambiguous
This error is related with the Database ID in the Catalog database.
To solve this error, Firstly set DBID and try again.
RMAN> set DBID=1343463786;
Try again, if it is not solved then connect catalog database and run the unregister and register database .
connect catalog user/pwd@CATALOG_DB connect target / RMAN> unregister database; RMAN> register database;
Do you want to learn more details about RMAN, then read the following articles.
https://ittutorial.org/rman-backup-restore-and-recovery-tutorials-for-beginners-in-the-oracle-database/