Or you could look at secure backup as an alternative to MML... Robert G. Freeman Oracle ACE Author: Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY SOON! OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles out of print now... Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com The LDS Church is looking for DBA's. You do have to be a Church member in good standing. A lot of kind people write me, concerned I may be breaking the law by saying you have to be a Church member. It's legal I promise! :-) http://pages.sssnet.com/messndal/church/parachurch.pdf ________________________________ From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> To: John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:50:42 AM Subject: Re: RMAN + NetApps if your stategy is to backup directly to tape then *RMAN* must integrate via the mml. If it's to backup to disk and then tape, then *you* need to co-ordinate the rman policy with the tape backup policy. if its to backup to disk only then its probably not an issue. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Fedock, John (KAM.RIC) <John.Fedock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am looking into moving all my backups to RMAN (10.2.0.4/Windows). > >Readingthru the doco, my first impression is that is must integrate with your >tape backups, so RMAN knows when items can be safely deleted. > >Our systems team has started to use NetApps to take disk level snapshots as >part of their new backup procedures. Can anyone explain to me as to how RMAN >can integrate with this solution (if possible?). > >I am going to google next. > >Thanks all, > > >John Fedock > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info