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Does HyperBac for Oracle support backups direct to tape?

April 26, 2017backups hyperbac Oracle support tape

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Does HyperBac for Oracle support backups direct to tape?

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Not at present. HyperBac for Oracle currently supports disk based backup devices only. Disk based backups provide database administrators with fast, reliable recovery online points. HyperBac’s compression is superior to the hardware compression which is common on many tape devices, so a disk to tape backup strategy will generally yield a 50% reduction in tape storage costs as well as a 75-90% reduction in DASD, NAS or SAN requirements.

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Not at present. HyperBac for Oracle currently supports disk based backup devices only. Disk based backups provide database administrators with fast, reliable recovery online points. HyperBac’s compression is superior to the hardware compression which is common on many tape devices, so a disk to tape backup strategy will generally yield a 50% reduction in tape storage costs as well as a 75-90% reduction in DASD, NAS or SAN requirements. As importantly, hardware compression is more time consuming, whereas HyperBacs compression out performs native Oracle uncompressed backup performance.