Duplicate 12c database from Windows 2012 to CentOS 7
Our customer has an Oracle 12c database running on a Windows 2012 server.
We would like to clone the contents of their database into our own Oracle 12c
database running on a CentOS 7 server.
They provided us with 76 .BKP files to do this.
They say that in their own environment, they're able to clone the data between
their Oracle 12c databases (all running on Windows 2012) by using:
RMAN> duplicate database to <name> backup location 'F:\path\to\BKPs';
Apparently, they don't have to do anything else.
Here's how we're trying to do it:
We installed a brand new Oracle 12c database, following the directions here (Basic Installation - For Container Database, Including Pluggable Database: