Hello all,
I was wondering if it's possible to use rman to do remote backups.  For instance, I only have one tape backup device at the moment and it's being used to backup a file server.  As of now, I have scripts that shutdown the oracle database and copy all of the files over to the file server so that it can be backed up nightly.  Needless to say, that method sucks...  I would like to use rman to backup the database by either copying it stait to the remote tape backup device, or at the very least, copy it over to the file server nightly.  Would anyone happen to know how this could be done?

Thanks in advance,

-Big Daddy J

You can use RMAN to backup to (local or remote) tape, or to disk file.
I am not sure (never did that) how to configure the backup to tape, but the backup to disk is easy:
you allocate a channel of type disk, where the format specifies the path and file name(s)...

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/maintain/OracleDocs/server.816/a76990/rmansyn6.htm
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/maintain/OracleDocs/server.816/a76990/rmansyn2.htm#7683