Hi, two questions: You opened multiple channels. Is it possible to write to them concurrently? Often SBT media disallows that and breaks the parallelism. Silly, but necessary: Do you have Enterprise Edition? Regards Martin Sandra Becker schrieb: > Oracle 11.2.0.2 > SLES11 on IBM mainframe > DB size - just below 1T > I run an incremental 0 backup on my production OLTP once a week, > incrementals the rest of the week. Recently changed the disk_asynch_io to > TRUE and the filesystemio_options to SETALL, per recommendations from > Oracle. I then added a channel to the backup scripts so it uses 4 > channels. These changes shaved 35 pecent off the time it takes to run the > incr0 backup, which I am very happy with. > > The SA monitoring the performance of the mainframe says the incremental 0 > backup of our production OLTP is pegging a single CPU, out of 5 available. > He thinks the backup would run even faster if it used more CPUs and > suggested setting the PARALLELISM parameter to more than 1. Unbeknownst to > him, it had been set to 3 for the past 6 years. He wants to know why the > backup isn't using more CPUs. Any ideas/suggestions? > -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l