Re: Where is RMAN doing the work?

Sorry,

On further inspection of the first couple of pages of the RMAN manual, it does talk about server sessions
so the must mean everything happens remotely.

Never really looked at the first pages of the manual :)

Jake

"Jake" <me_at_heyjay.com> wrote in message
news:aljplc$4m1$1_at_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
>
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Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 22:54:30 CDT