On Jan 15, 2008 10:49 AM, <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just took a database from 1 ½ hours cold backup to compressed RMAN hot > backup that took 4 ½ hours, (oracle version 10.2.0.1). Only one backup so > far. (one Disk Channel). BTW the cold backup 'compress'ed the files > also ('*.Z'). > Did you monitor CPU utilization during the backup? I would suspect it was rather high. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist