Hi all,

I have couple of DEV databases that need to be backup and I want to get some advises from you guys:

Again, it's Dev database and EXP/IMP is not a good method for backup as many said so I am thinking using RMAN; hwoever, RMAN required the DB in Archived log mode whcih I don't need that for Dev so you think that I should run hot backup (out the tablespace in backup mode and run the backup while the database online???) again, EXP/IMP may not be a good idea b/c the DB is huge and it will take days to import data.

Any opinion would be greatly appreciated