Hello Shawn, if you have tsm for san this would be good option for multi TB env. For TB DBs we use from 4-8 session backing up to tape direcly....
HTH Chavdar On Friday, November 11, 2016, Shawn Drew <shaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m looking for best practice advice for TDP for Oracle with regards to # > of channels. > > If you have a classic TSM environment with a disk pool that migrates to > tape, it would seem that using one-channel for TDPO backups makes the most > sense to prevent the case where multi-channel files get migrated to the > same tape. Our DBAs are quite opposed to using only one channel > (particularly large multi-TB databases) but I can’t find any official best > practice statement from IBM that I can use as a response. > Unfortunately IBM support worded it “you might want to only use > one-channel” which didn’t sound strong enough for our DBAs. > > There is no “reverse-collocation” to ensure the data ends up on different > tapes, as far as I know, so what is the best practice for backing up Oracle > data in an environment with data migrations? > > -Thanks > Shawn >
