11 Tuning Backup and Recovery
Tuning RMAN performance is mostly a matter of maximizing the speed with which RMAN creates your backups and restores from backups, on disk and especially on tape. A secondary concern is limiting the effect of backup activities on database throughput.
You may also need to tune performance of the database during instance recovery.
This chapter covers the concepts needed for performance tuning, and the features in RMAN that can help you. The discussion is divided into the following sections:
