The oracle agent backs up the database while the database is running - no need to shutdown the database or stop any services. The agent appears to use RMAN as its backend.
I think you could set up an alert to notify you when media is overwritten (Just go to Tools/Alert Categories).The only issue that I see with this is that when Backup Exec runs through the Verify step after the job completes, it's going to want these ...
I don't want to influence you one way or the other but we were also having loads of issues with 11d 7170. Just like you, we had lots of 'buggy' issues. I actually rolled us back to version 10d and have been very happy with it so far (it's been abou...
You can grab service pack 2 from here: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290728.htm This includes all hotfixes up to 25. I think they skipped 26 - here's 27: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290858.htm28: http://seer.entsupport.syman...