Re: MML, Oracle, and Tape Backup on RedHat ES

hpuxrac wrote:
> Frank this was the question posed by the OP in the 1st post.
>
> Does anyone run Oracle on RedHat and if so, do you backup to tape
> directly
> from RMAN and if so, what backup software and MML do you use?
>
> The OP reformulated the question again
>
>
>>RMAN needs a media management library to work directly with tape.
>>Not all tape backup soluions provide the MML.
>>I was wondering which do, oh RHEL 4
>
>
> No answers that I see that anyone has provided to the original or even
> to the reformulated question.
>
> I believe Veritas, Legato, and Tivoli products do have this on linux.
> There maybe others.
>

hmmm, grumpy, are we?

Missed the original post. Think the op wants free (as in beer) s/w.
Implemented rman->disk->tape even on HP *with* the RMAN mml.
Just for the speed...
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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