how to make a consistent backup at a RAC+ASM environment
I'm reading the 2day's DBA document for oracle11gR2.
I get this sentence from this book's backup related chapter.
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Make a consistent (that is, offline) backup of your entire database immediately after switching your database to <strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.0pt; color: red; background: yellow;">ARCHIVELOG</span></strong>
mode.
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Actually, I'm working at a RAC+ASM environment.
Q1: So I'd like to know how to do this consistent backup?
Q2: I have to use RMAN to do it?
Q3: If I do this consistent backup, how to output the backup files from ASM to OS? and how to input the backup files from OS to ASM while we need to restore it?