I would strongly urge you to push for oracle backups via RMAN. The DBAs
will thank you in the end, and your life will be so much easier. It is
the right thing to do, and the way the industry is going.

If you don't use RMAN, then you have to worry about duplicate backups
and how to accommodate for change without anybody telling you. You will
have to have oracle quiesce pre and post scripts to run with Legato, or
run everything outside of legato via scripts and commands. Each method
has it's own pros and cons.

Push for rman. 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Yard, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:34 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Oracle Backups w/o rman

I have a Legato 7.4.1 system
on AIX 5.3 which backups up a
number of Oracle databases.

Our strategy is to backup the Oracle 
databases to disk , then backup the 
Oracle backup os files to tape, then 
delete the oracle backups. 

In addition we backup the os filesystems 
to tape . If I backup the oracle 
file systems to Legato I will have a 
massive duplication of data. Since Oracle 
is not being terminated, these backups are
not valid for recovery, yet I need a structure
for the dba to recover into if we were to lose
a disk.

I am sure there is documentation in
respect to this issue, can this group 
suggest some starting points ? Comments ?

Thank You,

JYard
UCLA   

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