Re: Can RMAN or 3rd Party Utility backup to disk?

<ana220108_at_mail02.anaserve.com> wrote in message news:utm98.12389$dx6.2246615_at_twister.socal.rr.com...
> (Sorry if this shows up as a duplicate post. The first didn't seem to
make
> it.)
>
> We jumped into purchasing Veritas BackupExec for NT/2000 and its Oracle
> Agent before discovering it does not support Oracle 8i's RMAN feature.
It's
> too late and there are not enough funds to buy Veritas NetBackup Utility.
>
> To please our DBA, we (System Administrators) are trying to come up with a
> workaround... Any thoughts if RMAN can create a save set backup to a hard
> drive (instead of tape) or is a 3rd party utility available that can do
the
> same?
>
> We're *hoping* the database can be written to hard drive in RMAN format
and
> the tape backup can grab the files during its normal backup??
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
> Roy.
>
>

RMAN can make a disk backup.

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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