Syntax option: INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION NO INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION Specifies whether Oracle Rdb checks each area's SPAM pages or each database page to find changes during incremental backup. If you specify INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION, Oracle Rdb checks each area's SPAM pages and scans the SPAM interval of pages only if the SPAM transaction number (TSN) is higher than the root file backup TSN, which indicates that a page in the SPAM interval has been updated since the last full backup operation. Updates in the SPAM interval result in an extra I/O. Specify INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION if your database has large SPAM intervals or infrequently occurring updates, and you want to increase the speed of incremental backups. If you specify NO INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION, Oracle Rdb checks each page to find changes during incremental backup. Specify the NO INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION clause if your database has frequently occurring updates, uses bulk-load operations, or does not use incremental backups, or if you want to improve run-time performance. The default is INCREMENTAL BACKUP SCAN OPTIMIZATION.