Whats the point in purchasing a DPA for Oracle? It seems to me you can get
the same effect by using Oracle?s RMAN to dump a full backup to a directory
on your disk and then incrementals to the disk, then have ADSM just back up
that directory daily and erase it. Walla.. Hot backups without the cost of a
DPA..

Am I wrong?  I see the only drawback being you need disk space for the
procedure.

Gerald Wichmann
RS Engineer
Sansia System Solutions
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