Hi, If you define your FRA on an ASM diskgroup, you can use RMAN command BACKUP RECOVERY AREA; to take a backup of the whole FRA to tape (optimizations is on by default for that and it copies only backups that are not on tapes at the moment) --- Maris Elsins @MarisElsins <https://twitter.com/MarisElsins> www.facebook.com/maris.elsins On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You could still write the first backups into an ASM diskgroup and then > later run an RMAN job to backup/copy that backup to a tape device (assuming > you have the MML configured properly) or some other filesystem disk that > would later be pushed to tape. > > Don. > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Chris King <ckaj111@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Quick question I think.. For standalone databases, I've been writing rman >> backups to disk and then backing up the rman backup files to tape. Now >> we're using RAC and the backups are written to ASM disk. Is there an easy >> way to copy those backups written to ASM to tape? Or will I need to run the >> oracle rman backups directly to tape with netbackup? >> >> Thanks in advance all! >> >> > > > -- > Don Seiler > http://www.seiler.us >