Re: RMAN to disk & from tape

Michael,

You can backup to disk, then move the backupset(s) to tape. If you need to restore however, you'll need to dump your tape back to disk. There's no way (that I know of) RMAN can write or read to tape directly without a third-party api that's linked through $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.a

On 8/8/06, Hand, Michael T <HANDM_at_polaroid.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> V9.2.0.5 Tru64 5.1B
> I'm fairly new to RMAN, and have been asked to look into the feasibility
> of switching to RMAN for our backup strategy, with the goal of reducing
> Legato licensing cost. Now a tape-only strategy would be straight forward,
> but we don't want to spring for the Networker Module for Oracle. As would a
> disk-only but we don't enough free disk space to keep more than one copy of
> our 8-900Gb database online.
>
> So is it possible to use RMAN to backup to disk, then move them to tape
> without RMAN's involvement. and when a restore is necessary, use RMAN to
> take the backup files directly from tape? I'm willing to do a bunch of
> research and testing here, but would rather not be banging my head against a
> wall if this scenario is out of the question. From other posts it sounds
> like I'll have my work cut out for me at a minimum. Thanks for your
> thoughts on this matter.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Hand
> Polaroid Corp.
>
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