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If you are using the media management layer (ie rman
talks to tape devices) then you can't beat rman.
If rman is just dumping to disk, and these are going to tape manually *and* you only want the most recent backup, then you can't beat rman
If you want to be able to restore from various points in time, and you only keep the most recent on disk, then rman is no worse then hot backup, but not much better.
rman of course does avoid the hassle of redo logs getting hammered...
bottom line (imho): the days where rman was a bucket of crap are long gone. it would be my first choice now for any new db.
hth
\connor
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