What are the current wait-events for the rman sessions? -> select state, seq#, event, seconds_in_wait from v$session_wait where sid in (<rman1>,<rmann>); Do you backup on tape, hd or tape library? Regards, Jan ________________________________ Von: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Prasad Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 08:11 An: ORACLE-L Betreff: rman backup slow All, we have a 170G db on 9.2.0.7(solaris 9) . and I see that it currently is taking nearly 10 hour+ to do a rman backup . when I see this in grid control I see the rman session keeps waiting on this sql . SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,:"SYS_B_0",:"SYS_B_1"),TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,:"SYS_B_2",:"SYS_ B_3"), TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,:"SYS_B_4",:"SYS_B_5") FROM X$DUAL anyone has any similar situation . appreciate any suggestion. Thanks in advance thanks Prasad