Hi

If you are disk copying the files yes no liscence required.

Well your approach sounds good to me.

If you can afford a shutdown yep then shutdown the database and copy the files to disk and then takes these copied files over to veritas on to the tape.

I am not sure what your dba is trying to say.

But you can also take a RMAN hot backup to the disk and then from the disk copy it over to tape using veritas.You dont have to pay liscence fees in thsi case too since you are not integrating rman and veritas.But teh catch is if you wnat to restore then you shoudl first restore it to the place through veritas where rman had backed it up.

Bottomline if you dont integrate ramn with veritas agent you dont need to pay liscence fees.


regards
Hrishy