hi Matt,

BACKUP_DIR not set is issued by Oracle internal library.  Your oracle is
still linked with Oracle internal disk library.  Please perform the steps
described in the manual to re-link oracle with TDPO.

http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/storage_mgr/admanual.htm#optional

regards,
Thiha



>A DBA of ours is seeing the following error when trying to perform a
backup
>using TDPOracle on an HPUX system,

>ABOX>/opt/app/blooper9/admin/ABOX/udump $ tail -100 sbtio.log
>(10613) OBK-sbt: sbtinit: initializing SBT API
>(10613) OBK-sbt: sbtpvt_tfn: BACKUP_DIR not set.



>I have checked through TDPOracle documentation and cannot find any
mention
>of BACKUP_DIR; I am not very au fait with the method used from within
RMAN
>to start a backup and I have asked the DBA to check to see if BACKUP_DIR
is
>a value that is needed by RMAN separate from TDPOracle.

>In the meantime, has anyone seen this before?


>Thanks,

>Matt.