Peter -
We have not seen anything with doing an Oracle Data Base, outside of the fact
that it
is always a full backup, and will be eligible for backup everytime the file is
opened,
as Oracle changes the date/time stamp as soon as the DB is opened. I also have
not
heard of any problems with compression.
What you probably want to look at are tools that use the ADSM API to do backups
of
only changed data. Data Tools has one that just came out on Sun and HP, with
an AIX
version due out any day. Oracle is also rumored to have one in the works as
well -
actually it works with some "glue code" that IBM has/is developing.
OOPS - forgot one important thing in the first paragraph - of course you need
to look
at what state the DB is in for backup - is it offline, online for update, or
read
only. Have to be careful here, or people might think I'm an RDB critter, which
I'm
not. :-)
Jerry Lawson
ITT Hartford Insurance Group
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
(203) 547-2960
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