RMAN Restore Database Slow / How To Improve RMAN Restore Performance [ID 467694.1]

 

RMAN Restore Database Slow / How To Improve RMAN Restore Performance [ID 467694.1]
		Modified 10-JUN-2010     Type HOWTO     Status MODERATED

In this Document
  Goal
  Solution

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Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.1.0.2 to 10.2.0.4 - Release: 10.1 to 10.2
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

RMAN Restore database is slow.  Backup to tape takes 13 hours and the restore takes over 26hrs.

Solution

Things to check/configure when RMAN restore from tape is slow :

+  The number of channels to be allocated should be equal to the number of physical tape drives.

+ Set parallelmediarestore off and run the restore :

Example :
RMAN> SET PARALLELMEDIARESTORE OFF;
RMAN> RUN {
allocate channel to tape ...
.
.
RESTORE DATABASE;
RECOVER DATABASE;
}


+ If large pool is not configured then configure the large pool size and enable the backup_tape_io_slaves :
LARGE_POOL_SIZE = 100 m
BACKUP_TAPE_IO_SLAVES = true


By setting the above parameters the restore time reduced from 26 hours to 13 hours.

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