Peter, Maybe RMAN didn't need the additional channel. How large is your database? Dennis Williams > > After I added a data file to one of my tablespaces, rman decided not to > use channel 5. > > After seeing what had happened I verified that I had a good backup by > doing a test restore of the database on a development machine. > > Any ideas what made rman decide not to use one of the allocated channels > and is this something that I should be concerned about? > > Thanks, > Peter Schauss > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l