Hi,<br><br>You say you are backing up 9GB, but is that the size of the footprint on the tape after the backup or the size of your IS Priv database before backup? Brick level will take longer than a full database backup because it is backing up every attachment and email contained in each mailbox. Where as a full database backup only backs up the compressed *.edb file. So although the .edb file is only 9GB on disk this is not the actual size on tape when using a bricklevel backup. Hope this is what you were after.<br><br>Regards,<br><br><b>CarlG</b>