....We are doing this in an environment that is very similiar to yours on
several ADSM clients running UNIX. We do incremental backups of redo logs
each weekday night while Oracle is up and running, then do a full offline
backup of the entire Oracle database on the weekend.  The full (selective)
is kicked off by cron on the client and is a script that brings down Oracle,
does a dsmc to backup the database, then brings Oracle backup. The process
has been going very smoothly with no problems....Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DOUGLAS STRILECKY [SMTP:DStrilecky AT BCBSM DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 9:25 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Oracle incremental backup
>
> We are running ADSM 3.1.1.3 on an H50 under AIX 4.3.  We backup to a disk
> pool and then migrate the data to tape later. We use an STK9710 library
> with DLT7000 tapes drives.  We currently backup 60+ servers and aprox
> 200GB a night. The majority of the data backed up is full backups of
> Oracle data bases.  Most of our Oracle data bases are v7.3.X.  We also
> have a couple  that are V8.  We have two servers with large Oracle
> databases(aprox 200GB each- V7.3.5) we want to add to ADSM.  When/if that
> happens under our current environment we will no longer meet our backup
> window.  We have been discussing doing incremental backups on the Oracle
> data bases(do a full backup on Sunday and then backup the logs during the
> week).  I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience(good & bad) doing
> incremental Oracle backups.  I'd also be interested in your method of
> doing them.
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug Strilecky
> BCBSM
> dstrilecky AT bcbsm DOT com
> ph. 313-983-3411
> fax 313-225-6644
>
>