I believe this to be possible.

'SBT_TAPE' tells Oracle/Rman that you want to use a 3rd party media
manager (ie. TDP for Oracle) for your backups. 'SBT_DISK' tells
Oracle/RMAN that you want to use Oracle's internal disk library which
means that you can dump it to local disk. Keep in mind that I have never
attempted this but you should be able to redirect to a tape device rather
than a disk. Again I have never gone directly to tape using this method
but at first glance it seems possible; you may want to refer the
Oracle/Rman User's Guide on this. To be sure, to go to disk your rman
script would look something like the following (remeber this is just an
example):

run
{
   allocate channel t1 type 'SBT_DISK';

   backup controlfile;
   backup database;

}


Regards,

Neil Rasmussen
Software Development
Data Protection for Oracle
rasmussn AT us.ibm DOT com




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Good morning,

A rather general question.

Is it possible to take the backup of only 1 instance with the TDP for
Oracle
(an instance that would be used for testing in TSM) and to take the backup
of the other (production) instances to a local tape with an RMAN script?

Both backups (TPD and local RMAN backup) do allocate 'sbt_tape' as
channel.
In other backup solutions, a symbolic link of the Oracle library
$ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.sl is created to the library of the backup
solution.
Which means that a backup to a local device using a RMAN script is no
longer
possible.

I did not find out if this is the case too with the TDP for Oracle. Must
all
Oracle instances be restarted after the installation of the TDP or only
the
instance that you want to backup with the TDP or is there no restart at
all.

Thanks,

Kurt Beyers