Re: Looking for Recommendation on Backup Software that works well with Oracle in Hot Backup Mode

Just my biased 2 cents' worth, but I personally think you'd have to go a long way to beat RMAN backing up to DISK, and then having a simple cron job (or AT, you didn't mention the platform!) transfer the lot off onto tape. Unless you have a rinky-dink tape backup device costing gazillions, strikes me that backing straight off onto tape is liable to leave tablespaces in hotbackup mode for too long for my liking.

Oh, incidentally, RMAN is free. And it works very nicely, provided you can invest three weeks to do battle with the syntax (though 'backup database including controlfile' isn't really going to stretch you too much, I'd have thought).

Regards
HJR

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"Jeremy Perkins" <jpintampa_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Please Help!

>

> Our Arcserve 6 Backup software has stopped working.  I have been asked by

 my


> network admin to check what is a good replacement Backup Software Package

> that works well with Oracle for getting Hot Backups as well as standard

 cold


> backups.

>

> We are backup up to a Tape Drive on the Local Server.

>

> Please let me know if you have an recommendations.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Jeremy

>

>