Yong, Yes I've seen that but I can't wait to upgrade to 11g to solve this problem so I have to split the data into multiple tablespaces to speed up the backup. Finn On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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