That's correct! It's true that work with RMAN is a little bit hard, but if use LTO2 you will see the advantage of using TDP for Oracle. There's no disk subsystem so fast as LTO2. Those drive units can transfer at 70MB/s compressed.
So to utilize the LTO2 drives with it's full capacity you have to multiplex your database backups. And you can only do that through TDP for Oracle. Multiplexing means that you read from several datafiles in parallel and send them in one stream or session to TSM Server. SQL-BackTrack, can't do it. Regards, Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: ? Oracle TDP needs RMAN?? Hello all, I am working with a some Oracle people to define a backup solution. I suggested using the Oracle TDP for doing HOT backups. They said that the TDP does nothing for them because they do NOT use RMAN. They write their own scripts to freeze/release the table spaces and do backups. Does this sound correct? Oracle TDP works directly with RMAN? Thanks Matt