The application I am talking is about 10 GB in size, small enough that application users are able to do a restore in under 1 hour. Export is done daily by application users, Import(say Restore) only done occasionaly. Mind you, I said this is done by Application users, who have no idea what export or import is. They only think they are taking backups. DBA's are called when all "efforts" by application users fails to get data restored.

Sam, I would never talk about "responsibilities" with managers, especially the ones who think they KNOW(be it technical or otherwise) more than any DBA's or Developers do Not when they give you written specs that export/import is the way to do it.

My point is not about export/import the right Backup/Restore tool. It is about situation where you are forced to use it.