RE: RMAN impact

awesome explanation Brandon,
  yes, it makes sense.  we're on 9.2.0.6  ;-( 

"Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
      It basically performs a full scans of all your tables, so lots of "I" 
(a.k.a Input), and then writes either to disk (lots of "O", a.k.a Output) or to 
tape, depending on how you have it configured.  So, if  you're system is tight 
on I/O capacity, then yes - a backup of any type, not only RMAN, could 
certainly cause performance problems.  And incremental backups, which are only 
available with Enterprise Edition, don't make as much difference as you might 
expect because they still require a full scan of all blocks - and then only the 
updated blocks since the last full or incremental of level-1 are written out to 
the backup device.  That is, unless you're on 10g, where the change tracking 
file was introduced to avoid the full scan.  Of course there is significant CPU 
involved with all that I/O as well, but usually the I/O is more of an issue 
since that's where most systems seem to be bottlenecked.
   
  Regards,
  Brandon

      
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  so, can anyone tell me what kind of impact RMAN usually brings to a system, 
rather what toll it takes on one!  :-)
   
   
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