Where is RMAN doing the work?

From: Jake <me_at_heyjay.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:43:02 -0500
Message-ID: <aljplc$4m1$1@bob.news.rcn.net>

If I have my target db on host_a across the WAN and I run rman from my local machine host_b and I write my backup to a network drive (or nfs), what is the path from db to backup? That is, does my local rman read the remote database, retrieve (across the WAN) the used blocks, then write them to the backup destination? Or does RMAN work sort like an RPC call and all the reading of blocks gets performed remotely, and then from that remote server it writes the backup?

My guess is the latter but I can't find anything in the doc

Thanks
Jake Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 22:43:02 CDT