I always thought it was the rate at which Oracle (RMAN) was doing the reading, "PULLING", not the rate if a writing or "PUSHING" to MML-TAPE or DISK? But I guess neither lives in isolation. ??? ---V$BACKUP_SYNC_IO; This view provides information about the current status of active backup to DISK. USE_COUNT DEVICE_TYPE TYPE STATUS FILENAME TOTAL_BYTES TO_CHAR(OPEN_TIME TO_CHAR(CLOSE_TIM ELAPSED_MIN MAXOPENFILES BYTES EFFECTIVE_BYTES_PER_SECOND IO_COUNT READY ---------- ----------------- --------- ----------- -------------------- ----------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------- ------------ ---------- -------------------------- ---------- ---------- 31 DISK AGGREGATE UNKNOWN 2.9150E+10 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-06:50 154.15 4 2.9150E+10 3151737 27804 20563 31 DISK INPUT FINISHED /dev/rdrd/drd10074 2.0972E+10 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-06:50 154.15 2.0972E+10 2267436 20001 14722 31 DISK INPUT FINISHED /dev/rdrd/drd10278 4194304000 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-05:53 97.5166667 4194304000 716853 4001 2996 31 DISK INPUT FINISHED /dev/rdrd/drd10280 2936012800 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-05:35 79.6666667 2936012800 614229 2801 2097 31 DISK INPUT FINISHED /dev/rdrd/drd10106 1048576000 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-04:53 37.7833333 1048576000 462539 1001 748 31 SBT_TAPE OUTPUT FINISHED DEV_5kde82tg_1_1.bkp 14-JAN-2002-04:16 14-JAN-2002-06:50 154.25 1.1791E+10 1273969 179910 127718 Chris Marquez Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jos Sent: Tue 10/18/2005 7:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: v$backup_sync_io Hi, In the v$backup_sync_io view, there is a column call something like effective_bytes_transfer. If I am getting a low value for this column, does it indicates there is an I/O issue to the backup media or could it means RMAN is not reading blocks fast enough for the backup? Jos ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search http://au.local.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l