Re: RMAN tuning

2001-08-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks Tom!RBG - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:50 PM Ruth, According to Michael: Tom: I haven't got a change to test it. I will try it sometime today. However, page 11-11 of Oracle8i Backup and

RE: RMAN tuning

2001-08-29 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Michael, You might look at the BLKSIZE parameter. I did some basic tests using NT and the EDM client, and found that setting the BLKSIZE to 2 Meg was the fastest for my installation. I think the default is 64k. You set the parameter like: allocate channel d2 type 'SBT_TAPE' parms

Re: RMAN tuning

2001-08-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Tom, Does this only work for tape? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:10 AM Michael, You might look at the BLKSIZE parameter. I did some basic tests using NT and the EDM client, and found that

RE: RMAN tuning

2001-08-29 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ruth, According to Michael: Tom: I haven't got a change to test it. I will try it sometime today. However, page 11-11 of Oracle8i Backup and Recovery Guide (8.1.5) states that Do not use this port-specific string if you have specified type disk. Thanks, Michael I haven't tried it for disk,

RMAN tuning

2001-08-28 Thread Xin \Michael\ Wu
Hi All, I use RMAN to do a full backup of 120G database while the database is up running. It takes around 6 hours to finish. I have 61 data files and manually allocate 6 channels. For all the RMAN parameters such as FILESPERSET, I take the default. Does anybody there know how to maximize the