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cptkirkh schreef:
> On May 17, 12:14 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> cptkirkh schreef:
>
>>>> I run Oracle 10g on a Win 2003 server. I have backups going to one
>>>> of the drives on my DB. I would like to copy those files to a tape
>>>> for offsite storage. If I then had to restore the DB for any reason
>>>> could I then restore those files from the tape and then restore the
>>>> whole database?
> Define your definition of backup. If it does not
> have the capital letters, A, M, N and R somewhere,
> further discussion is quite useless in my opinion.
> Sorry i thought RMAN was the default for this group. I don't use RMAN
> to backup them up to tape. I use veritas to take the backup files to
> tape.

OK - so you do use RMAN. Minor question: why not to tape
directly?

As long as you can restore them to the path you copied
the RMAN generated files, there's no problem.
If not, you'll have to fiddle with the RMAN location
variables.
- --
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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