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Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14194-02
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releaseForMaint

Syntax

releaseForMaint::=

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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

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