Re: the beauty of informix ontape-onbar against oracle rman

Well, Then that's something IBM(Informix) could learn from Oracle: "M a r k e t i n g" Chucho! McCabe-Reed, Barbara wrote: > Because Oracle stinks. The only thing they are good at is marketing the > product. They have a long way and not sure if they will ever catch up to > the robust engine of Informix. > > Barbara A. McCabe-Reed > breed@sikorsky.com > (203) 386-6431 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: hopehope_123@yahoo.com [mailto:hopehope_123@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:05 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: the beauty of informix ontape-onbar against oracle rman > > > Dear Informix gurus , > > As for the man who started to work with oracle 9i after 7 years of > informix experience , i want to share my latest problem with oracle > and get some suggestions / corrections from you , the gurus of > informix - oracle . > I work with a datawarehouse system which runs on Linux -itanium > processor-oracle9i and emc disk array . I want to take full archive of > my system(in informix term) But i was told that rman cant backup data > directly to tape without a third party softare like legato or etc. But > those third parties have not released a version on itanium yet. So , i > have to take backups to disk than transfer to tape but within current > situation it is impossibe for me to find such a large disk area. I > know that and used lots of time ontape,onbar for data archives , they > can directly write to tape , (even when the tape device is a remote > one , this is also my case) , but why oracle cant do this ? Or is > there anyone who can tell me the fact about this? > > Kind Regards, > hope > sending to informix-list > -- Atte, Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo ----------------------------------- jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@netscape.net sending to informix-list