Well actually ...., the entire script takes about 4 hrs and it shuts down lots of services including the Oracle Database. I'm not sure how long the copy piece takes. I'll have to put a time in the script. This is an old HP server, Proliant DL380 G3. The drive is an internal logical (partitioned) COMPAQ SCSI drive. But the copy is probably taking longer than normal because it's being copied to a compressed folder, which adds some overhead.