Is it just me, or does ASM unnecessarily complicate operations? Frankly, things such as this are why I don't use it. With a halfway decent volume manager, I don't see the need for ASM. Jared On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Finn Jorgensen <finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Krish, I don't think that's possible when your only means of getting data > to tape is NetBackup. tar/cpio could not get to the tapes in that particular > case. > > Steve, you could say that, but as is so often the case, things started out > in one way and somewhere down the line circumstances changed necessitating > the archival and space had already been provisioned and there was no money > for more disk (hence the archiving in the first place). > > Finn > ... > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist