Every Oracle backuppiece starts a new TSM session. Look at the RMAN's User Guide on how to use the 'filesperset' for starters. There are a few other parameters that you can use in RMAN to help tune your backups.
Regards, Neil Rasmussen Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development IBM Corporation Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120-6099 Phone: 408.927.2206 (T/L: 457-2206) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 02/21/2008 11:23 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject TDP-Oracle+RMAN Hi, recently I reviewed backup sessions of some Oracle DB servers (RMAN). Our DB servers have about 100-400 sessions a day. Can someone explain in which cases there are new sessions opened by TDPO/RMAN and how to reduce session usage. I've investigated actlog and there were many many session open/close operations within one minute. I think that might stress the backup server unnecessarily. Thanks Regards, ..--Egonle ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com