> Doing some quick assumptions (all RAID10, HDs 50% full, tape compression 50%) and math, that's about 23TB of data to be backed up onto 690 DAT tapes. At about 3MB/second transfer rates and tape swapping, that's about 3 months to do one backup. And I have no idea what you do if you need a restore at day 70 of the backup... Btw, the database size is quite tiny compared to the total disk space. They just have that many disks for having more spindles to get the IOPS required... Tanel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------