If your MAXPIECESIZE is limited to 4GB, it won't have multiple datafiles that add up to more than 4GB. I see that this configuration seems to be for a STANDBY database ? What about the Primary database ? Hemant K Chitale -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Latham Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 11:23 PM To: Hemant K Chitale Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: rman show output RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01006: error signaled during parse RMAN-02001: unrecognized punctuation symbol "*" RMAN> 2> using target database control file instead of recovery catalog RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name STANDBY are: CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 10 DAYS; CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '/data/robt_%F'; CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 1; CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK MAXPIECESIZE 4 G FORMAT '/data/oradata/rman/triples/ora_%n%T_%t_s%s_s%p.bkp'; CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BASIC' AS OF RELEASE 'DEFAULT' OPTIMIZE FOR LOAD TRUE ; # default CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_2/dbs/snapcf_triples.f'; # default RMAN> On 29 September 2014 16:19, Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Each datafile is larger than half the MAXSETSIZE ? > > Or FILESPERSET is set to 1 in the BACKUP command ? > > Or the BACKUP is BACKUP AS COPY ? > > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Howard Latham > <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Oracle 11.2 >> Linux Redhat 5 Enterprise. >> >> I cant fathom for the life of me why rman on one particular database >> seems to put every file in one backup piece or set of slices yet all >> the others I have a maximum of 4 in in each slice. >> >> Anyone got a hint on this please? its causing me a head-ache. I've >> checked the parameters but they seem ok. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Howard A. Latham >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> > > > > -- > > Hemant K Chitale > http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com > http://hemantscribbles.blogspot.com > -- Howard A. Latham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify the sender immediately. You may wish to refer to the incorporation details of Standard Chartered PLC, Standard Chartered Bank and their subsidiaries at https://www.sc.com/en/incorporation-details.html. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l