We have a database that is over 150 GB and compresses to just under 20 GB. It made me nervous the first time I did the math but we use the backups on a daily basis to refresh our QA environment and even restored it from a Solaris environment to AIX as we were preparing it for conversion. On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:36 -0400, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote: > Just ran the following command. This is our first RMAN backup. It > backed up a 17G database into about 3G of files. Is this > reasonable????? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l