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Bob Bakh wrote:
> 
> VERITAS consulting does this as a consulting effort.

This doesn't help me much since I work for a Veritas reseller in the
Professional Services group.  As a result, I am an extension of Veritas
consulting, and need to learn how to do this.
 
> Now the question is why this method vs. using BLIB or Extensions, I'm just
> trying to get a feel for why customers use this type of backup.

Both methods (BLIB and extensions) put load on the primary database
server.  TimeFinder and ShadowImage offload the burden to the array and
secondary backup host.

> It seems to
> be more of a administration Head Ache.

I agree, but when performance is the governing factor, customers go for
image copy techniques.
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