Does anyone have practical experience with 10g and staging to tape using the
Flash back functions? 



--- Vincent_Mase AT harvardpilgrim DOT org wrote:

> 
> NBU 5.1 mp2 running on Win2k sp4,  Redhat 3 client running Oracle 10G
> database.
> Investigating if NBU will support integrated backup and recovery of  Oracle
> Flash Recovery Area with
> RMAN.   The DBA team is requesting storage to create the  FRA and now  I need
> to figure out a way,
> if possible to, manage staging the snapshots to tape.
> 
> Flash Recovery Area defined by Oracle:
>                                                                              
>                        
>  Flash Recovery Area                                                         
>                        
>  The Automatic Disk-Based Backup and Recovery feature simplifies managing
> disk space and files       
>  related to backup and recovery, by managing all backup and recovery related
> files in a flash        
>  recovery area. You set the flash recovery area size and location, using the
> DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST   
>  and DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE initialization parameters. You also specify a
> retention policy that  
>  dictates when backups may be discarded. RMAN then manages your backup
> storage, deleting obsolete    
>  backups and backups already copied to tape when space is needed, but keeping
> as many backups on     
>  disk as space permits. This minimizes restores from tape during data
> recovery operations to shorten 
>  restore and recovery times.                                                 
>                        
>                                                                              
>                        
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Vincent Mase
> 
> 
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