At least with RMAN you have all IOs instrumented and can see/count them within the instance (statspack/ASH/AWR/, v$sysstat, v$session, ...) On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 17:16, Rich Jesse <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2) You may want to consider using RMAN instead of the traditional hot backup. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l