That's correct! It's true that work with RMAN is a little bit hard, but if use 
LTO2 you will see the advantage of using TDP for Oracle. There's no disk 
subsystem so fast as LTO2. Those drive units can transfer at 70MB/s compressed.

So to utilize the LTO2 drives with it's full capacity you have to multiplex 
your database backups. And you can only do that through TDP for Oracle. 
Multiplexing means that you read from several datafiles in parallel and send 
them in one stream or session to TSM Server.

SQL-BackTrack, can't do it.

Regards,

Anderson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) 
  To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:14 PM
  Subject: ? Oracle TDP needs RMAN??


  Hello all,
          I am working with a some Oracle people to define a backup solution.
  I suggested using the Oracle TDP for doing HOT backups.  They said that the
  TDP does nothing for them because they  do NOT use RMAN.  They write their
  own scripts to freeze/release the table spaces and do backups.  Does this
  sound correct?  Oracle TDP works directly with RMAN?
  Thanks
  Matt