Jeff, Thanks for sharing. Regards Rafiq Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:46:20 +1300 Subject: Re: LANfree Backup with RMAN From: jifjif@xxxxxxxxx To: rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx we found LANfree useful mostly for avoiding tape head and disk pool contention in a busy TSM library (w/ dedicated GigE backup network) Though not TSM-specific, using Block Change Tracking and going through the RMAN tuning whitepaper were also both very helpful in reducing backup times. Worth a mention. HTH. On 4 March 2011 13:49, Mohammad Rafiq <rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Our B&R team suggesting to use LANfree backup for our larger Oracle databases (ver 10.2.0.4 and 10.2.0.r on Suse Linux10) sizes between 7 TB to 17TB. Our current setup is using TSM but we having issues for backing up larger databases. I could not find any doc on Oracle Metalink whether it works with RMAN or not Google search was not that much helpful. Any experience good and/or bad or any pointer for LANfree backup using RMAN. Regards Rafiq