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RMAN section size vs piece limit

DDebOct 12 2017 — edited Oct 12 2017

Hello expert,

                     I was trying to experiment which command give me better performance for rman backup section size clause or maxpiecesize clause? I could not do that because both can not be used together.Can anybody tell me which one to be used for good performance?

RMAN> @section.rcv

RMAN> backup incremental level 0 database section size 20G;
Starting backup at 12-OCT-17
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=859 device type=DISK
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_2
channel ORA_DISK_2: SID=953 device type=DISK
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_3
channel ORA_DISK_3: SID=1048 device type=DISK
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_4
channel ORA_DISK_4: SID=1145 device type=DISK
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 10/12/2017 10:21:58
RMAN-06808: SECTION SIZE cannot be used when piece limit is in effect

RMAN> **end-of-file**

My rman settings

RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name CCBX are:

CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 8 DAYS;

CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;

CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';

CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 4;

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 MAXOPENFILES 4 MAXPIECESIZE 10 G;

CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default

CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default

CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default

CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BASIC' AS OF RELEASE 'DEFAULT' OPTIMIZE FOR LOAD TRUE ; # default

CONFIGURE RMAN OUTPUT TO KEEP FOR 7 DAYS; # default

CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default

CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/oracle_homes/appccbx/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbs/snapcf_ccbx.f'; # default

Regards

Dhritiman Deb

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