we found LANfree useful mostly for avoiding tape head and disk pool contention in a busy TSM library (w/ dedicated GigE backup network) Though not TSM-specific, using Block Change Tracking and going through the RMAN tuning whitepaper were also both very helpful in reducing backup times. Worth a mention. HTH. On 4 March 2011 13:49, Mohammad Rafiq <rafiq9857@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Our B&R team suggesting to use LANfree backup for our larger Oracle > databases (ver 10.2.0.4 and 10.2.0.r on Suse Linux10) sizes between 7 TB to > 17TB. > > Our current setup is using TSM but we having issues for backing up larger > databases. > > I could not find any doc on Oracle Metalink whether it works with RMAN or > not > > Google search was not that much helpful. > > Any experience good and/or bad or any pointer for LANfree backup using > RMAN. > > Regards > Rafiq > > >