Zoltan,

You can't Oracle using the TDP without RMAN.  There are many people who
write their own scripts to backup Oracle.  You can backup a tablespace
at a time, by puttting the tablespace in "backup mode" and then using a
SELECTIVE backup on the tablespace (which is a file.)  You could write a
script to do this, one tablespace at a time.  The biggest problem we
have encountered doing this, is that when a new tablespace is added to
the database, you must be sure to modify your backup script accordingly.

Laura Buckley
STORServer, Inc.
buckley AT storserver DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:59 AM
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 ?