At 11:34 PM 14/08/2006, you wrote:

>As you say, garbage collection is not an issue for the restore, so
>what is it doing just before finishing and going home which might
>cause the server to become unresponsive ? The restored database is no
>being accessed by any other application

Sorry for missing the point that you were getting this behaviour at
the end of a *restore*.

Could you describe how you're doing it? Switches, filepaths and all.

./heLen