Roger, There are so many possible variables here that the only thing this means to anyone on the list is that your backups sometimes take longer to run than other times. I suggest you work with your storage admin to find out where the bottleneck is. Brandon had a good suggestion that you should follow up on. Jared On 6/16/05, Roger Xu <roger_xu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just found out every time there is a backup piece takes 9 hours while > others take less than an hour. > What does this mean? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen, Brandon [ mailto:Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:22 PM > To: Roger Xu; Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail) > Subject: RE: To reduce RMAN backup time > > > Roger, > > Could it be that the additional disk you are now writing to is slower than > the other single disk you were writing to before? > > Are both backup pieces running in parallel with similar start and > completion times, or are they running sequentially? I had this happen once > due to the setting of filesperset or some other parameter (can't remember > the details). > > Regards, > Brandon > > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist