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

"Bonjour" from Paris,

rman realize only disk backups. In order to realize rman tape backup, you need a 3rd party utility.

"Au revoir" from Paris

ana220108_at_mail02.anaserve.com wrote:

>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.
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 02:57:23 CST