backup strategies

I'm curious as to what people are doing for backing up their database. Currently we run in noarchivelog mode because we have the option to bring down our database once a day. We currently back up the datafiles to another machine which backs them up to tape later. We need to switch to archivelog mode and I'm curious what people are doing in this mode. Are people copying stuff to another machine and backing up to tape like we currently are? Are you backing up to tape directly? When you run a backup in archivelog mode are you bring a tablespace at a time into/out of backup mode? Are you backing up all tablespaces or just a portion? Any ideas would be helpful.

thanks,

Jason Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT