Backing up ASM/FRA to disk via RMAN

Our 9i RAC systems were built using Veritas SFRAC. Due to an archaic tape infrastructure, we had to stream our backups to disk, then allow a nightly O/S backup job come along and backup it up to tape. We were not allowed to directly stream any backups to tape.
We are now in the process of building 10g RAC systems with Solaris 10, using ASM/Clusterware, and no 3rd party clustered file system.
My question is: if we define a FRA in ASM and stream RMAN backups there, how can I backup this area to disk so that the nightly O/S job can put it to tape. Likewise, if I have to recover and go to tape to pull an older backup, how do I restore a backup to the FRA so I can perform a restore (if it can be done)?
In other words, I still cannot directly stream to tape from the ASM FRA - I must first put it out to disk. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Jeff

AFAIK, the FRA/ASM can only be backed up to the
tape.This is correct. The FRA was created to be your on-disk backup location so that N days/copies of your backups stick around ( RMAN> CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO [RECOVERY WINDOW x | REDUNDANCY x] ) to be readily available. So in RMAN's view, to backup the FRA to disk, again, would not make sense. So the only way to back it up is to a Tertiary device (tape) only.
HTH,
Layton

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