releaseForMaint

Syntax

Text description of the illustration releaseForMaint.gif

Purpose

To release a sequential I/O device specified in an ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE command. Note that maintenance channels are unaffected by ALLOCATE CHANNEL and RELEASE CHANNEL command issued within a RUN command.

Requirements

• Execute this command only at the RMAN prompt.
• You must have a maintenance channel allocated in order to release it.

Examples

Releasing a Maintenance Channel After a Delete Operation: Example

This example allocates and then releases a maintenance channel to the media manager:

ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE DEVICE TYPE sbt;
DELETE NOPROMPT BACKUPPIECE 100;
RUN 
{
  ALLOCATE CHANNEL ch1 DEVICE TYPE DISK;
  BACKUP DATAFILE 1;
  RELEASE CHANNEL ch1; # releases RUN channel but not maintenance channel
}
RELEASE CHANNEL; # releases maintenance channel