"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Really?
>
> How much disk space do you have??

Haven't we been over that before?

Desktop:
1x80GB (2 paritions, OS)
1x320GB (2 partitions, apps and data)
1x160GB (1 partition, games)

Laptop:
2x120GB drives

Server:
1x80GB (OS and apps)
4x160GB in a RAID 5 config. Results in 480GB of usable space

>> The smaller they are the easier they typically are to maintain and admin. 
>> It's the bigger ones that are difficult because of the time required to 
>> do anything with them (like backup, restore, defragment, etc)
>
> Yeah, I'll bet.
>
> Mind you, having said that, it takes about 3 minutes to backup *my* 
> database...

That's slow for a 1.2 GB. My 10GB test DB backs up in under a minute, and 
that's just on a desktop. No fast SCSI drives, backups and data on same 
drive and tonnes other stuff running.
Ok, mine is SQL and yours is Oracle so maybe 3 min is reasonable.

Last DB I worked on took 4 hours to backup. That's partially cause the SAN 
was badly configured though. It should have taken maybe 2 at the most.
That's a 1.2 TB database

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