I agree that this should be a part of the documentation, but until someone steps up and volunteers, we're not going to have it. I think there is something in the docs by Don about how he set his backups up. It could be fleshed out.
We'd probably need a separate doc for PostgreSQL and Oracle. I always found Oracle backups problematic. I could never find step by step documentation on how to set up backups -- and the export/import never worked for me.
I actually do it now by brute force -- I have a huge hard drive that backs up the entire /ora8 directory. And then I also run a tape backup of the entire computer. There is some history there, but cleaning up if the Oracle hosed my data would be a pain. Not good dba practice!
