Richard,

How are these dumps created?  If they are created using DD or something 
similar, you may be able to get some relief from using RMAN to create disk 
dumps.  RMAN only backs up used database pages. It also has options to do 
incremental and differential backups.  These are really options that you should 
be exploring if your window is really that tight.  

Regards

Steve Harris
AIX and ADSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

>>> "Dearman, Richard" <rdearm1 AT UIC DOT EDU> 28/04/2001 3:42:19 >>>
The amount of data is the same everday 500GB full backup.  I'm using one SSA
card in the tsm system.  I could get Gig cards if I have proof that I'm
maxing out the current 100mb cards in the system and I don't seem to be
doing that.  The tsm server is plugged into the same switch has the backup
server and on the same ip subnet.  Also, the database files that I'm backing
up are just oracle dump files.  The tsm serve is also running aix 4.3.3.