Sane backup setup?

From: NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:08:23 GMT
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We'd like to finally start rman.

We have a number of not very large databases (up to 100G) running on multiple hosts (3-6).

We'd like to buy a server and attach storage to it for backups only. We'd like to create a 'private' gige network between database servers and this backup server. RMAN will run on the backup server.. RMAN will pull backups and put them on this disk array..

Is this a pretty standard setup, anything you'd do different (besisdes reduntant components, which I am not mentioning)? We'll probably run some non-expensive SATA based storage for backups.

How would you dump RMAN backups to tape periodically?

Thanks,
-A
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We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.6/7 on Solaris 2.7 and RH4 remove NSPAM to email Received on Tue Sep 13 2005 - 15:08:23 CDT