5 Configuring the RMAN Environment: Advanced Topics

This chapter describes how to perform setup and configuration tasks. This chapter contains these topics:

• Configuring the Flash Recovery Area: Advanced Topics

• Configuring RMAN to Make Backups to a Media Manager

• Configuring Channels

• Configuring the Maximum Size of Backup Sets and Pieces

• Configuring Backup Optimization

• Configuring Backup Duplexing: CONFIGURE... BACKUP COPIES

• Configuring Tablespaces for Exclusion from Whole Database Backups

• Setting the Snapshot Control File Location

• Setting Up RMAN for Use with a Shared Server