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RMAN Exits With Error Codes

Symptom

RMAN responds with the following error codes when you use multiple channels to back up or restore data.

ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded.
ORA-17619: max number of processes using I/O slaves in a instance reached.
RMAN-10008: could not create channel context.
RMAN-10003: unable to connect to target database.

Solution

These error conditions occur when the incorrect channel count was specified.

More information:

Setting the Number of Channels for Backup and Restore