Guy Sheppard wrote:
>  The business now require daily backups kept for 14 days (In this case they
are
> Oracle DataBase dumps) We're not using EBU, RMAN or SQL Backtrack.
>
>  Month end for 1 year
>
>  QTR end for 1 year
[Further similar requirements deleted]

This sort of question has been raised a number of times in the past on this
mailing list, and the consensus answer that emerged was to use ADSM archive
facilities at month end, quarter end, and so on to produce tape copies for
long-term retention.