A pre TDP for SAP question: Any body using the ADSM BACKINT SORTFILE option? Our database is on an AIX box. We have spread the database over 4 volume groups. Each volume group contains 4-6 hard disks (SSA disk of various sizes). A given Oracle datafile is in only one filesystem, which is in one logical volume, which may span hard disks but is only in one volume group, so it should be possible to generate a list of database files with volume group as the BACKINT SORTFILE. Anybody done this? Does it help much with backup times? Ken Chamberlain University of Toronto Phone:(416) 978-1582 Fax: (416) 971-2085 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]