Re: How to archive very large Oracle RMAN files to tape?

If you are running Oracle8 on Solaris SPARC (not Intel) edition you can use Legato Storage Manager which shipped with Oracle8. That fasility provides enough flexibility to performe backups of very large databases directly onto a tape using RMAN. See Oracle8 Bakup and Recovery manual for more infrmation.

Eugene.

Tim Cuthbertson <timcuth_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:85g0t2$i97$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am using Oracle RMAN to backup an 80 GB database to three Veritas
> filesystems on Solaris 2.6. This creates some very large files (20 GB
> or more). I need to archive these files to DLT-7000 tapes for
> additional safety. However, I have not been able to find a utility that
> can do this.
>
> Both cpio and tar work with "large files", but there is still a maximum
> file size of 8 GB minus 1 byte.
>
> The Veritas vxdump utility can handle the size, but it can only backup
> entire filesystems. If I were to need to restore from such backups, it
> would cause havoc with the rest of the data on my filesystems.
>
> Does anyone know of a commonly available utility that will do this?
>
> TIA,
> Tim
>
>
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Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 08:19:32 CST