If all else fails --

I have several small Oracle databases (in the 10 to 15 GB size) and we just
shut them down for 40 minutes or so nightly and back up the filesystems.
Archive the file systems, that is. If you can afford the shutdown, and if
the backup/archive doesn't run too long, this may be acceptable.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zoltan Forray [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:24 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Oracle and TDP issues
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the helpful information about
> Oracle, RMAN and
> EBU.
>
> Will dig into to see if they installed EBU on this server and
> dig up some
> scripts/bat/cmd files to do the dumping/backup.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Tailor, Steve" <Steve.Tailor AT HEALTH.WA.GOV DOT AU>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 10/22/2002 08:57 PM
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
>
>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Oracle and TDP issues
>
>
> There is a program supplied with Oracle 7 called EBU.
> What we are doing is to use EBU to backup the database to
> disk and then do
> an archive of the backup.
> It all works OK as long as you have the disk space.
> We also have to do this with our Oracle 9 databases as TDP for that
> version
> is not yet available.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Tailor
> Technical Consultant
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zoltan Forray [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
> Sent: 22 October, 2002 10:59 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Oracle and TDP issues
>
>
> We just purchased the TSM TDP for Oracle on NT/2K.
>
> We installed it, only to realize it won't work since there is
> no sign of
> RMAN.EXE on this machine?
>
> So, the owner of this box/package contacts the vendor. Their response
> was"Oracle is version 7.3.4, not 8i or 9i, which will not run
> with their
> app. .... said the person she spoke to did not seem to know what RMAN
> was....."
>
> So, how does one backup an Oracle app/database, using the TDP
> without RMAN
> ?
>
> I am not an Oracle person but even I know that RMAN is the
> utility to do
> database backup/restore/maintenance !
>
> Suggestions, anyone ?
>