our nt admin is trying to push this emc clarion SAN split on ud for backups...anyone using this? Also as an aside,we take rman backups to disk producing about a 130gb backupset, from there the nt admins backup to tape. My rman backup takes 45 mins and the backups to tape takes 9 hours using LTO 2 over the newtork. Is it me or does this seem like a long time. During the backup to tape the whole network goes wooooosh as the available bandwith is being taken up by the backups. tks steve -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l