Never worked on Non-RMAN Backup tools

I have never worked on Non-RMAN backup tools. I have only worked on databases which are below 1 TB in size. If you have an Oracle 10GR2 Database which is 5 TB in size, would you still recommend RMAN for it?
Do third party tools use RMAN internally ie integrated to it?

My production DB is 800gb in size and it takes 3.5 hours to take a full backup in compressed mode. This means , it will take around 15 hours to backup a 5TB database !!
Hi Jack,
You are not obliged to do full backups with RMAN. You can use this strategy for example :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm#sthref412
You will have a fist full backup (image copy) to do but after that only incremental backups will be done. Much space is needed of course but it works well.
Best regards
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Edited by: 873393 on Apr 17, 2012 10:09 AM

Hello,
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[posting snippet]
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