If you are currently doing disk-to-disk backups, especially large databases, you could save many hours of down time and millions of blocks of disk space by using BacPac. BacPac is from 3 to 7 times faster than VMS Backup when saving files disk-to-disk, and has the added benefit of producing much smaller savesets.

Here are some typical examples.

Comparison times on an AlphaServer 800 running OpenVMS 7.1.
Image - Image save of a system disk.
Single - A single large database file.
Oracle - Three Oracle files approximately 1.9 gb.