Yes indeed. Backup to (disk-based) FRA, followed by BACKUP RECOVERY AREA (to tape), is the cleanest and simplest way to take care of this. It avoids the race conditions (and the risk that your backup-to-tape may be invalid because it ran too soon), and RMAN remains aware of exactly where every backup is. The only problem is that this requires an RMAN-compatible media manager. The Original Poster referred to "BackupExec"; the last time I checked (granted, about 4 years ago) this was not compatible with RMAN. Now, if the OP was interested in stepping up to NetBackup (or any of a couple dozen other products), this would be an option. A very, very, good option. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Whiel backup t odisk should not be a problem it all depends on how you set > it up. > If thisis Oracle 10 you can setup a flash recovery area to backup to disk > and do a backup recovery area to backup the complete flash recovery area to > tape. > if flash recovery area ia not parto f the solution. > How do you intend to restore the data is the question. > Are you planning to backup to disk using rman and then using filesystem > backups to backup to tape. If so remeber rman has no idea that the backup > is on tape since MML operations were not involved. This can be troublesome > when recovering since you will have to manually figure out what tpae has the > backup and then restore it to a point where rman can recoverit. > > A VTL can normally help in this scenario since while it makes rman think > its backing up to tape but the actual backup happens to disk with an > automatic tape offload at a later point. Rman and the MML interact and talk > to each other thus making restores a breeze. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> > *To:* oracle-l-freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; oracle-db-l < > oracle-db-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2009 12:21:55 PM > *Subject:* RMAN backup to disk and then later copy to tape > > We are looking into switching from hot backups on Windows servers to RMAN > backups. > > Our intent is to use RMAN to backup to disk. At a later time, we will use > Symantec Backupexec to copy the backup sets to tape. > > Anybody see a problem with doing this? > > > Jeffrey Beckstrom > Database Administrator > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority > 1240 W. 6th Street > Cleveland, Ohio 44113 > -- Cheers, -- Mark Brinsmead Senior DBA, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs