On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Prasad <p4cldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a device parallelism set to 2 for this rman backup. could it be > this which makes a sqlnet message from client wait and wait for the spawning > processes . because 7 hour seems right to my understanding . as the backup > started at 9pm and I did the output around 4am in the morning . Yes this is > a backup that goes to disk. > Could be. I started a backup before replying to see if that was the case, and there was no 'sqlnet waiting for client' on any session. This was a tape based backup. Could be that there is such a session on disk based. Sorry, too lazy to set up a disk based backup to check. Jared