On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jared Still <jkst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Roy McMorran <mcmor...@mdibl.org> wrote: > > You should probably enable block change tracking. > This allows Oracle to track changes to the database so that > RMAN does not scan the database looking for changes to > the database for incremental backups, but just reads the > BCT file and backs up the blocks pointed to. > > It is very fast, and timeouts should no longer be an issue. > > For the benefit of anyone reading this thread after the fact, Roy reported that use Block Change Tracking reduced the incremental backup time from 4-6 hours to 15 minutes. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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