RE: RMAN to disk & from tape

Thanks all for your input, and to Robert for authoring a really fine book on the subject. I'll have to have a serious discussion with the requestors of what is and isn't possible.

I'm glad I wasn't banging my head against the proverbial wall for too long. ;)

Regards,
Mike Hand

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg]
>
> Yes and No.
> Yes you can use RMAN to Disk and then use any utility
> (NetBackup without
> the Oracle module, or TAR or CPIO)
> to copy that backup to tape.
> No, you cannot make RMAN "aware" of the tape backups. Thus,
> RMAN cannot
> restore directly from tape as it
> does not know which tape has which backup set.

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