Good morning, Background: Windows 2003 / Oracle 10g with auto undo (8K block size) We have only one datafile (20 GB) in the undo tablespace. When I ran RMAN backup of this datafile, it created a 20GB backupset file. I query dba_undo_extents and it shows less than 80 MB used. SQL> select sum(blocks) from dba_undo_extents; SUM(BLOCKS) ----------- 9824 Any explanation? How do I keep the backup of undo small? Thanks, Roger Xu