Depending on your database requirements and availability, you can also shut 
down the database and backup the flat files ( not an export )  using the backup 
client. We do this if we want to move a database to another server relatively 
quickly . This method only works if your Oracle is using flat file and not 
logical volumes.

Rich



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Stephan26
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:04 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Can we use TSM for oracle database backup without
using RMAN


As mentionned, depending on Oracle, you could just export or dump to flat files 
and backup from there...so you wouldn't need TDP for Oracle...

You'd have to be careful though.  You would want to do your dump using an 
integrity check so that if any transaction are running while dumping, you are 
not missing any parts.

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