I would to, but no, and it started at midnight. And another begins at 1:00am which wasn't an issue in the past, (it takes 3 ½ hours). This new backup only has run last night. Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:35 PM To: Patterson, Joel Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RMAN Compression verses cold On Jan 15, 2008 10:49 AM, <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Just took a database from 1 ½ hours cold backup to compressed RMAN hot backup that took 4 ½ hours, (oracle version 10.2.0.1). Only one backup so far. (one Disk Channel). BTW the cold backup 'compress'ed the files also ('*.Z'). Did you monitor CPU utilization during the backup? I would suspect it was rather high. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist