Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference

Name

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE

Synopsis

Conducts maintenance on channels, and when doing so is used in conjunction with the CHANGE or CROSSCHECK commands.

Oracle9i syntax

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE 
  DEVICE TYPE [=] deviceSpecifier 
  [allocOperand [allocOperand ...]];

Oracle8i syntax

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR
   { MAINTENANCE | DELETE }
   { TYPE [=] deviceSpecifier 
   | NAME [=]'channel_name' }
   [ allocOperand [allocOperand ...]];

Example

In this example, a channel is allocated to delete a backup piece:

RMAN> allocate channel for maintenance type disk;
RMAN> change backuppiece '/d99/backups/1ccn3ed4_1_1' 
2> delete;
RMAN> release channel;