> Jared, the channels is set to 12, but since the database is mostly > this one bigfile tablespace effectively I'm only using 1 channel 99% > of the time. I was curious about a solution to this too. 11g provides "Multisection Backups" that can solve this problem. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/rman_overview.htm Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l