We have found that the compression causes the restore to take MUCH MUCH MUCH longer. It seems that the decompression algorithm is very slow. WE abandoned compression so we could get a database back quicker - 3 hours instead of 18. On 06/01/2010, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are doing a compressed backup of a 200G database in about 2 hours. When > we run the duplicate command, we copy the production backup files to the > local disks of the target server. We then run the RMAN duplicate command > and it takes over 6 hours. Is it reasonable that a restore/duplicate from a > compressed backup takes that much longer than the actual backup? Is there > anything that can be done to speed up the process? > > > Jeffrey Beckstrom > Database Administrator > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority > 1240 W. 6th Street > Cleveland, Ohio 44113 > -- Howard A. Latham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l