Re: Balancing size of RMAN backup pieces

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 4 Jan 2007 05:54:57 -0800
Message-ID: <1167918897.864894.186110@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

Andy Kent wrote:
> How does RMAN allocate datafiles to disk-based backup channels and can
> I control this?
>
> One of our databases consists of eight datafiles of which by far the
> largest are two of 5GB. Our RMAN backup scripts allocate five disk
> channels each on a different filesystem, but we now only have 4GB free
> in each. (Hey, I only inherited this stuff). The backup fails because
> it seems to allocate each datafile round-robin to a single channel and
> the 5GB datafiles won't fit anywhere whole any more.
>
> What control do I have over this?
>
> 9.2.0.5 on Solaris 5.8.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy

Did you look at maxpiecesize in the doco? Received on Thu Jan 04 2007 - 07:54:57 CST