thanks all. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Tim Gorman [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:14 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Rman Parallelism param This is simply the equivalent of telling RMAN to issue two ALLOCATE CHANNEL ... TYPE DISK commands when a RUN {} is not specified (a nice 9i feature). Of course, you can override this default behavior within any explicitly-specified RUN {} block... on 3/26/04 9:22 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F at thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > All, > > Within Rman, I can : CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 2; > > Does anyone know what this does? The docs only mention setting this for > tape. I am hoping that I can spin up several rman backup processes at once > to speed up a disk backup. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------