Thank you to your info. I set to "unlimit". following are "show all": RMAN> show all; using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 2; CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/u4/RMANTEST/legl_cf_%F'; CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1; # default CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT '/u4/RMANTEST/legl_%U.bak'; RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/home/app/oracle/product/9.2/dbs/snapcf_legl.f'; # default RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters RMAN configuration has no stored or default parameters --- Ron Rogers <RROGERS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you set the channel limit in the RMAN command > structure? > If the channel limit is set "set limit channel d1 > kbytes 50000;" will produce a file of 5 gig and > include > only the files that will fit in the backup file. > How big are the files you are trying to backup? > Ron > > >>> dba1 mcc <mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx> 07/18/05 10:22 AM > >>> > We have ORACLE 9.2.0.6 on LINUX server. The > database > have 4 datafiles > > system > undo > data > index > While we doing RMAN backup we specify "backup > database > filesperset=6;", RMAN does NOT backup all 4 > datafiles > to one big file. It backup system, undo and data > files as one file. It also backup index as another > file. > > Does their has way to make RMAN backup all datafile > as > one big file? > > Thanks. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l