169 Identify the channel settings that can be performed using the CONFIGURE CHANNEL or ALLOCATE CHAN

169
Identify the channel settings that can be performed using the CONFIGURE CHANNEL or ALLOCATE
CHANNEL commands in RMAN (choose all that apply)
A. Limiting the input/output (I/O) bandwidth consumption
B. Specifying the size of backup sets and backup pieces
C. Specifying vendor-specific information for a media manager

D. Specifying the parallelism for backup and restore operations

Correct Answer: AC
Section: (none)
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Whether you allocate channels manually or automatically, you can use channel control commands and
options to do the following:
Control the operating system resources RMAN uses when performing RMAN operations. Affect the degree
of parallelism for a backup or restore (in conjunction with the FILESPERSET parameter of the BACKUP

command)

Set limits on I/O bandwidth consumption in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes
(ALLOCATE CHANNEL …RATE, CONFIGURE CHANNEL … RATE)-check
Set limits on the size of backup pieces (the MAXPIECESIZE parameter specified on the
CONFIGURE CHANNEL and ALLOCATE CHANNEL commands)- half of answer B
Set limits on the size of backup sets
(the MAXSETSIZE parameter specified on the BACKUP and CONFIGURE commands)
- Not in the CONFIGURE CHANNEL and ALLOCATE CHANNEL (B is wrong)
Set limits on the number of concurrently open files
(ALLOCATE CHANNEL … MAXOPENFILES, CONFIGURE CHANNEL … MAXOPENFILES)
Send vendor-specific commands to the media manager
(SEND)
Specify vendor-specific parameters for the media manager
(ALLOCATE CHANNEL … PARMS, CONFIGURE CHANNEL … PARMS)-check
Specify which instance performs the operation
(ALLOCATE CHANNEL … CONNECT, CONFIGURE CHANNEL … CONNECT)
Oracle Press 1Z0-053 Exam Guide, Chapter 8: Monitoring and Tuning RMAN:
You can further tune your RMAN backup performance by tuning individual channels with the CONFIGURE
CHANNEL and ALLOCATE CHANNEL commands. Each CHANNEL command accepts the following
parameters:
- MAXPIECESIZE: The maximum size of a backup piece
- RATE: The number of bytes per second read by RMAN on the channel
- MAXOPENFILES: The maximum number of input files that a channel can have open at a given time
The MAXPIECESIZE parameter is useful when you back up to disk and the underlying operating system
limits the size of an individual disk file, or when a tape media manager cannot split a backup piece across
multiple tapes.
Note that the RATE parameter doesn't improve performance but throttles performance intentionally to limit
the disk bandwidth available to a channel. This is useful when your RMAN backups must occur during
periods of peak activity elsewhere in the database.
MAXOPENFILES was reviewed in the preceding section, but it is worth revisiting when you want to
optimize the performance of an individual channel. For example, you can use MAXOPENFILES to limit
RMAN's use of operating system file handles or buffers.
Oracle Press 1Z0-053 Exam Guide, Chapter 4: Creating RMAN Backups
References to PARALLELISM were only referenced as CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK
PARALLELISM…
By default, any backups to disk default to a backupset backup type:
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default