Certainly there are Oracle extensions for NBU; we use an Informix and
SQL extension currently.  However, we are moving away from them in favor
of exports to disk.  Exports are faster (and so less drain on the
server), recovery is faster, and you don't have to buy expensive
extensions for every instance or db you have or add.

With Oracle we are currently exporting to disk, write that to tape, then
the next export will overwrite the previous one.  Logging is also done
to disk.  Informix is taking longer to migrate.....

~JK

"HAPMAN, DAVID M [IT/0200]" wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> Our current environment is DataCenter 3.4.1 and we're using the Oracle/RMAN
> extension.  In addition to using the extension, are dba's are doing exports
> to disk to back up their tablespaces.
> 
> We have a request from our dba's asking if we can backup their exports
> direct to tape in a similar fashion to the RMAN backups, reducing the need
> for this disk space.  Is anyone doing this kind of backup?  Is there a way
> to perform this using the RMAN extension or perhaps another method?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
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