terry, i just looked at my present backup times and the backup times you were noticing it does seem ot higher. we backup to tape over a TAN(direct fiber attached) abd backup 1.87 TB full in 3 hours daily i'm guessing backup up over a SAN would be much faster . so maybe your underlying issue could be disk . ----- Original Message ---- From: Terry Sutton <terrysutton@xxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2006 1:04:14 PM Subject: Re: Lengthening backup No, it's on a SAN. --Terry > Is sharevol3 an NFS attached disk? > > > Regards > Dimitre > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l