I believe this to be possible. 'SBT_TAPE' tells Oracle/Rman that you want to use a 3rd party media manager (ie. TDP for Oracle) for your backups. 'SBT_DISK' tells Oracle/RMAN that you want to use Oracle's internal disk library which means that you can dump it to local disk. Keep in mind that I have never attempted this but you should be able to redirect to a tape device rather than a disk. Again I have never gone directly to tape using this method but at first glance it seems possible; you may want to refer the Oracle/Rman User's Guide on this. To be sure, to go to disk your rman script would look something like the following (remeber this is just an example):
run { allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_DISK'; backup controlfile; backup database; } Regards, Neil Rasmussen Software Development Data Protection for Oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurt Beyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 09/22/2005 10:50 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject TDP Oracle Good morning, A rather general question. Is it possible to take the backup of only 1 instance with the TDP for Oracle (an instance that would be used for testing in TSM) and to take the backup of the other (production) instances to a local tape with an RMAN script? Both backups (TPD and local RMAN backup) do allocate 'sbt_tape' as channel. In other backup solutions, a symbolic link of the Oracle library $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.sl is created to the library of the backup solution. Which means that a backup to a local device using a RMAN script is no longer possible. I did not find out if this is the case too with the TDP for Oracle. Must all Oracle instances be restarted after the installation of the TDP or only the instance that you want to backup with the TDP or is there no restart at all. Thanks, Kurt Beyers