Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

ORA-00222: operation would reuse name of a currently mounted controlfile

ORA-00222: operation would reuse name of a currently mounted control file




Cause: The filename supplied as a parameter to the ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE command or to cfileSetSnapshotName matches the name of the specified currently mounted control file.




Action: Retry the operation with a different filename.