Hello there,

I have a question about backup on Oracle and would like to get a
confirmation.  I understand TSM data protection provide ONLINE backup and
restore of database, i.e. database is still up and running during backup
and restore.  My questions are:

1.   Every time I do a backup on Oracle, I'll shutdown Oracle first.  Do I
still need TSM data protection ?  From what I understand, once I shutdown
Oracle, database is just a "file" to system and no process will lock these
file, so TSM should be able to backup these files safely without TSM data
protection, am I correct ?

2.   I heard that Oracle 8 provide tools to perform incremental backup on
database.  Do I still need TSM data protection ?

Thanks for your advice.

Regards
William

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