I meant the licence fees - we intend to do rman backups to disk then let veritas image copy the files etc, so it does not need to know that they came from rman - We could incorporate rman into the veritas backup and have it hive it off to tape straight away, but feel disk copy is faster and easier to manage from my point of view.

We have been told that rman would cost us upwards of £50,000 - is that not true then?