Hi Noons, I've been using Netbackup & the oracle agent for around 5 years with oracle versions 9 .2, 10.1 & 10.2. I backup to tape & remote disk simultaneously. I do not use FRA, but then maybe I'm just a dba1.0 ;-) In particular doing a full clone to another server is just a couple of rman commands. Yes, I use archivelogs as well straight to tape, and these get applied when doing the cloning. For me, it is just utilising rman with a remote store. You may have to watch your rman retention policy with your netbackup retention policy. I have a quite bonkers of never deleting a tape. cheers, jason. -- http://jarneil.wordpress.com On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, much appreciated if I can get some info: > > Anyone here using Netbackup agent to backup > their dbs directly to tape - without using > a FRA? > > If so, what's your opinion of ease of logging and > recovery, flexibility in being able to transfer > backups to others dbs for refreshes, etcetc. > > Also: are you using archived redo logs in full > recovery? > > How does Netbackup then operate in a recovery > situation? > > Only for 10g onwards users, please: I'm interested > specifically in FRA vs Netbackup comments. > > -- > Cheers > Nuno Souto > in cold Sydney, Australia > dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >