There are several ways.

1. Configure RMAN to do backups to a disk directory.  Exclude the oracle 
database directories from backup. run your normal node incremental after the 
RMAN job has finished.  RMAN disk backups have unique names, so you will need 
an include on the backup directory and a dedicated management class for Oracle 
backup data.

2. Shutdown the database with a preschedule command, backup the node, then 
start it up with a postschedule command.

3. exclude the database directories from backup.  set up a script to set the 
oracle tablespaces to hot backup mode (alter tablespace begin backup) one at a 
time, then run an *archive* on each, then take them out of hot backup mode. 
Note that this way you back up lots of gas,as you back up blank pages too.  The 
RMAN solution only backs up used pages.

HTH

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

>>> Anthony.Rivera AT MAIL.IHS DOT GOV 26/06/2002 2:50:16 >>>
I have a client that is running a small (~10GB) Oracle (9.0) DB on Win2K. I
have never backed up an Oracle DB before, especially on Win2K. (TSM Server
is AIX).

If someone could point me to a step-by-step explanation of how to do this, I
would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Tony



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