Originally posted by marist89
I don't care what my Sysadmins use to backup the filesystems. I use RMAN and backup to disk. They come along later and copy my rman files to tape.
agreed, you can get fancy and backup directly to tape but the long and short of it is that a restore from a disk is much faster than a tape, consider backing up to disk and then have some os utility archive the backup to tape after a couple of days