A few questions come to mind: Are you backing up to disk or tape? What degree of parallelism (i.e. how many concurrent channels) for both the backup and the restore/duplicate? Is the disk or CPU significantly slower on the target server? Are you using compression? Regards, Brandon ________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.