On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Nagaraj S <nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good Morning All, > > > > I have clarification on rman backup to tape. Suppose if backup team increase > the netbackup streams from 2 to 8, will it decrease the database backup > completion time window? And also how to make changes on rman script to > configure the new streams build by backup team and how rman can communicate > to backup each stream data’s on each tapes separately... Thank You It depend - if your database storage can give you enough throughput to fill 8 tape streams there is a chance to reduce a time. It's quite easy just add another channel with sbt_tape type to RMAN script. regards, Marcin Przepiorowski -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l