Yes staging does all the cleanup that you need, but the information will be on disk for a minimum of one day/24 hours (function of the software) before it will be staged. You can overide that manually by staging the disk volume whenever you feel like it, but that defeats the purpose of doing it automatically. I don't use rman, I shutdown the databases, clone the filesystem, bring up the databases and send the clones to backup (disk). My databases are then left on disk for 2 days before they are staged, and I have room for 3 days worth of databases, incase I have problems with the autochangers and their ability to keep up. Depending on what you backup for your entire enterprise, staging keeps our tape drives running 24 hours a day. Darren -----Original Message----- From: Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Rman/Legato/Architecture This sounds interesting. I'll investigate. So that I might save some trial and error investigating I will ask: What we do is IMMEDIATELY copy the most recent rman files to tape upon completion of the rman backup; then upon successful completion of copying the most recent files to tape, delete the previous day's backup. Does staging do all of this for you automatically (i.e. delete the files you want deleted)? -----Original Message----- Legato has a feature called staging, which we are using. In short, we backup up to disk, then based on age of the files, 2 days, 5 days, 7days, the savesets are moved to tape. Works great. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------