Richard I am assuming that when you say RMAN, you mean RMAN in conjunction with the TDP.
The TSM activity log lists the amount of data that RMAN/TDP has *transmitted from* the Oracle database and through the TDP (pre-compression). The accounting log shows the amount of data that was received by the TSM server (post-compression). This should give you your compression ratio. Eg Extract from activity log 07-11-2005 19:09:42 ANE4991I (Session: 8351, Node: XXXXXXXX) TDP Oracle NT ANU0599 ANU2535I File \adsmorc\orcnt\bph35taj_1_1 = 8060928 bytes sent Output from the following select command select bytes,entity,number from summary where entity='XXXXXXXXXX' and number=8351 (Number is the session number gained from the activity log) BYTES ENTITY NUMBER -------------------- ------------------ ----------- 8060939 XXXXXXXXXX 8351 As you can see from my example, the bytes are almost identical, which is correct as we are not compressing this particular Oracle backup at the client end. In your case, you should see that the number of bytes returned by the select command(Post-Compression) will be less than the number of bytes shown by the TDP in the activity log and thus get your compression ratio. Leigh -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: 07 November 2005 20:27 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Oracle RMAN compression ratio Hi Everybody, Is it possible to determine the compression ratio of a database backed up using RMAN to TSM ? I would like to see some stats for the backup size of the database when having compression enabled or disabled on the client. Rich