RE: rman question(allocating channels)

[Altizer, Bronwyn K.]

Yep its me answering a question for you for a change - I was able to bounce your question off of Dinis (our RMAN guru) and he said:   ( Yeah I could have pretended that I knew the answer but I don't think you would have fallen for that!)   Channels are streams. Basically when you have multiple channels (lets say 4 channel) you can write to take or disk with 4 streams at the same time, which means that you will be able to  backup more datafiles concurrently. No channels are not related to CPU or destinations. Yes it makes sense that you allocate more channels because it will shorten you backup time but then again the more channels you use the more resources you will be using on the server that you are backing up the database. I hope this answers your question but if not please let me know.     P.S. Each channel will correspond to a session in the database that is being backed up. -----Origin al Message----- From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: rman question(allocating channels) I've tried to find this in the docs to no avail.   If I'm writing out an RMAN backup to one disk(yes this is not ideal), then does it make sense to allocate multiple channels?   Are multiple channels related to CPUs or to destinations?   thanks, joe