Oracle in a Nutshell

Name

ALLOCATE CHANNEL

Synopsis

ALLOCATE [AUXILIARY] CHANNEL ['] channel_id [']
        { DEVICE TYPE [=] deviceSpecifier | NAME [=] 'channel_name'}
        [ allocOperand [allocOperand . . .]];

Creates a communication channel between RMAN and an output device. You can execute the ALLOCATE CHANNEL command only from within the RUN command.

Keywords

AUXILIARY

Specifies that the channel will be to an auxiliary database. Used for the DUPLICATE command and for tablespace point-in-time recovery.

NAME

Precedes the name of a particular device. Note that this syntax is not supported on any Oracle platform as of Oracle9i.

Common keywords and clauses: allocOperand, channel_id, deviceSpecifier.