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From: "Alex" <alex.hudghton@capgemini.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: rman backup to tape
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:29:57 +0100
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Alex

pauldb wrote in message <931338339.7018@www.remarq.com>...
>I am trying to develop a strategy for RMAN and have the
>following scenario:
>
>I have a disk for dedicated backup disk and a backup tape
>drive.
>
>I would like to first backup the database to disk for
>reasons of speed and availability and then use RMAN/ LSM to
>copy those backups the existing backups on disk to tape for
>extra security in case the backup drive should fail.
>
>Questions:
>
>How do i copy the backups to disk-

Use RMAN ! (channel defined as  type disk)


>How do i know what files to copy?  and


You don't need to

>Can i use a datafilecopy with the channel defined as
>  type 'sbt_tape'?


Not sure - why not use normal filesystem backup utilities ?
Then you can save OS and others at the same time :-)

>
>Has anyone got similar setup and can help.
>
>thanks a lot,
>Paul
>
>
>
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