I just had this conversation with a tech support representative at EMC last 
week. I asked about SQL, but the concept is the same for Oracle. You can do 
VDAP backups for file and virtual disk restores; however, the traditional 
agent-based backup of your databases is still necessary unless your DBA is 
willing to dump the Oracle data at least once a day to another disk via RMAN. 
Using VDAP backups will not get a reliable backup of live databases.

On 08 28, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Roberts, Justin (GE, Appl & Light) wrote:

> So we are designing a new DMZ and are trying to limit the number of services 
> that need to penetrate the firewall.  All servers in the DMZ will be virtual, 
> so we are using VADP for all file system backups.  However this doesn't help 
> us with Oracle Databases.
> 
> Is anyone doing VADP backups of Oracle Databases?  If so how are you getting 
> a good backup of the database, and how are you managing the archive files?
> 
> Thanks