RMAN Connection step

Basic RMAN Connection step  in window:
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Open windows CMD Tools and write rman for call the Oracle Utility tools for Backup and recovery purpose.
And connect the target database that while you want to take backup.
C:\Users\user>rman

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Feb 6 15:51:15 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

RMAN> conn target sys@testdb

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01009: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "advise, allocate, alter, backup, @, catalog, change, configure, connect, convert, copy, create, crosscheck, delete, drop, duplicate, exit, flashback, grant, host, import, list, mount, open, print, quit, recover, register, release, repair, replace, report, reset, restore, resync, revoke, run, send, set, show, shutdown, spool, sql, startup, switch, transport, unregister, upgrade, validate, {, "
RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: conn
RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 1 file: standard input

Above rman connect command syntax are not connect database and return the error for I mistake the command "Connect" as " Conn" as like think as sql*plus.

So write again  correct rman connect command with target database name string: 

RMAN> connect target sys@testdb

target database Password:
connected to target database: TESTDB (DBID=2598668270)

RMAN> exit  

The following variation starts RMAN and then connects to a target database by using operating system authentication:

C:\Users\user>rman

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Feb 6 15:53:39 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

RMAN> connect target /

connected to target database: TESTDB (DBID=2598668270)





if you want to exit from the RMAN  then write the exit command
RMAN> exit


Recovery Manager complete.

If you want to RMAN session Result output in text file. You are doing follwing step:

The following example appends the output from an RMAN session to a text file at

C:\Users\user>rman target / log d:/rmanlog06022014.log append
RMAN> connect target /
RMAN> show all;
RMAN> exit


Happy Reading............