Now, now, now. Where are we going to get with those attitutes? While you guys are afraid this will put you out of a job, a128 has a valid reason to automate these tasks. It sounds like he will be selling a product based on Oracle and can sell a "run-time" type license to the client as long as they don't use any interactive tools. Sounds reasonable to me.

If you are using 9i, the RMAN scripts are much easier to use for recovery than previous versions. In fact, all you may need is to issue "RECOVER DATABASE" from your rman prompt and let RMAN do the rest. In practice, however, you will have to duplicate the functionality of RMAN in order to adequately recover in all situations.