On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No RAID 5 in use. > > The target server houses all of our non-production databases which are > mostly idle. > Did you compare a disk utilization between backup and restore process ? Is it using all possible throughput during restore ? You can compare a restore process with backup copy operation between servers (this depend on network throughput too) but all of these activities can give you a answer if slow saving is only during database restore - if yes you have problem with Oracle, if no - check a OS first - maybe some of disks in your storage has physical problems. regards, Marcin Przepiorowski -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l