RMAN - Maxsetsixe

,Hi

SunOS 5.9
O ver 9.2.0.5.0 (both target and catalog)

Testing out RMAN backups. Configuration as follows:

xxx$rman

Recovery Manager: Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production

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<connect to target and catalog snipped>

RMAN> show all;

RMAN configuration parameters are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 30 DAYS; 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 '<my path>/%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 '<my path>/%d_%u_%s_%p'; CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO 2 G;
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '<my path>/snapcf_tag.f';

RMAN> exit;

I run my backup script and find that some files are larger than 2G in size. Am confused by this as all of the reading I've done led me to suppose that file size would be limited to that set by MAXSETSIZE. What am I missing here?

TIA Helen Received on Wed Dec 15 2004 - 10:44:29 CST