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RMAN channels

A channel is a connection (session) from RMAN to a target database.
A channel is either a disk channel or an sbt channel. A disk channel does I/O on disk while an sbt channel uses media managers.
RMAN allocates a channel with allocate channel and configures channels with configure channel.

Default channel

The default channel is started when RMAN connects to the target database.