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

You didn't say what type of Linux you running, but I know that Veritas NetBackup 4.5 and 5.0, and Oracle 9i both run on Redhat Advanced Server 2.1. Just make sure that your corresponding tape drives are also supported, and I don't see a problem backing-up straight to tape. RMAN is much more difficult to use than onbar. NetBackup has a GUI interface to help you backup your Oracle instance. I can't believe that Legato doesn't also have a Linux offering, since I've seen it run on some odd platforms. Hope this information helps. Brice Avila Minneapolis, Minnesota hopehope_123@yahoo.com (utkanbir) wrote in message news:<f6c90ebe.0401130104.73eaf90b@posting.google.com>... > 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