According to the figures below, you're getting about 30MB/sec, which may be all your tape drives can support, depending on the model and compression. From http://www.storagetek.com/products/product_page38.html: Specifications Performance T9940A T9940B Data transfer rate, native (uncompressed): 10 MB/sec 30 MB/sec Data transfer rate (compressed): 35 MB/sec 70 MB/sec -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kline.Michael Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:59 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Actual experience with RMAN/NetBackup We seem to be having some dismal performance with RMAN and NetBackup. 308G in 3 hours with two tape drives and 9940 media. The speed is not looking good. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l