It is indeed, this is so in each and every backup tool I've worked with. If you are having problems with too many channels open, you can limit them by limiting parallelism (configure device type 'SBT_TAPE' parallelism 1; or something like that). hth Alan Bort Oracle Certified Professional On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:40 AM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is actually normal. Netbackup does the same thing. > If you backup directly to tape with NB, each backuppiece is then also a > separate backup job. > > regards, > > Freek D'Hooge > Uptime > Oracle Database Administrator > e-mail: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx > tel. +32 (0)3 451 23 82 > http://www.uptime.be > disclaimer >