We were thinking of disk copying the files, so no cost then?
You don't happen to know if Veritas insist on rman do you - if not then we could just do ordinary cold backups anyway (db not that big - 20gig or so).
Old dba mentioned that veritas were not going to support us unless we used rman - but that may have been using their routines to take it straight to tape using their agent etc. ... we currently use thir oracle agent and do hot backups - but we can quite happily shut doen at night so culd do cold ones instead and not use veritas to perfiorm the database backups, just copy over the files produced from it instead? - does this sound like a reasonable approach to you?