Recovering production database after a loss to Prod database server and SAN

So I was asked this morning... can we recover our database if we lose both the database server and the SAN.
A bit of information:
Database: 10gR2
Using ASM
Backing up to ASM
SAN is onsite
My initial response was of course we backup at least twice a day, and then once a week move those backups to an offsite location.
Then I started thinking about it some more. If we lose the SAN we have offsite backups of the entire SAN once a week so we could recover the SAN. If we were to lose the server we would lose the diskgroups where the backups are being stored.
So my question is… and don’t laugh for me never thinking about it before please lol, but do I need to backup the ASM instance in order to be able to restore ASM to be able to get to my backups which are stored inside ASM diskgroups? If so do I need to do this old school by shutting it down and backing it up since there isn’t any archiving going on? If not does anyone recommend a certain way of going about this type of thing?
Thanks in advance
Luke

Hi Luke,
I think the answers to your questions are fluid, and can be stated as "it depends". If your SAN backup was created as a "snap", for example, a BCV on EMC systems, then likely you can get all your database in your ASM diskgroups. As long as all the disks in the diskgroups were snapped at the same time. Really, though, your best bet is always an RMAN backup which can be done even if your database is not in archive log mode. You can use rman to stop the database, restart it to mount mode and then back up the entire database, though I would suggest that if this is a production system that you do run in archive log mode.
Cheers!
Jay
http://www.grumpy-dba.com

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