On Jul 14, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Akash Jain wrote:
I am in very strange situation where my Oracle backup sometimes completes in 1 hour and sometimes it took only 16 minutes for same data.
You may have encountered an illustration of the value of SAN versus shared LAN, where all manner and volume of traffic may appear on highly accessible LANs, slowing throughput for your transfer in amongst all the other data on the wire. Richard Sims
