Agreed, but it's a bit silly to backup 200 gbyte of historical database
every day. When a incremental backup in RMAN might send 10 Mbyte per day.
Extreme example yes, But I think RMAN is really worth the effort.


-----Original Message-----
From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene AT DOCUM DOT ORG]
Sent: Thursday 6 February 2003 20:48
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM for Oracle


On Thursday 06 February 2003 19:41, Hart, Charles wrote:
> Our management thinks we should switch to Veritas because "It's easier to
> Implement", your management doesn't seem to understand that the RMAN piece
> is probably the most complicated piece of and DB backup.
Why using the tdp?  Put the database in archive mode.  Put each tablespace
in
backup mode, backup the database files, disable backup mode.

alter tablespace ... begin backup (in prebackup command)
dsm incr ...
alter tablespace ... end backup (in postbackup command)

No rman troubles, no tdp to buy, ...  And it works flawless.

Stef

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