Brbackup on HA and backup strategy

Dear Expert,
We have a ECC6 on HA and node1 hosts AS and node2 host DB.
Now when we login to node1,
sapnode1:abcadm> brtools
BR0651I BRTOOLS 7.00 (24)
BR0152E Environment variable ORACLE_HOME is not set
BR0280I BRTOOLS time stamp: 2009-01-26 12.38.22
BR0654I BRTOOLS terminated with errors
1. Is there any doc which explains how to go with backup/restore on HA
2. Also a doc which explains the backup/restore strategy for production
3. For the DR site which method is the best one and how to do it?
Regards
Prash

Hi Upender,
Very helpful answer indeed. Awarded points.
Will drill down to it and will check as what can be done so that DB13 can run smoothly. If you can make my approach more easy, if u have already done it.
My default profile
SAPSYSTEMNAME                               ABC
SAPGLOBALHOST                               abc-ascs-srv
rdisp/mshost                                abc-ascs-srv
rdisp/msserv                                sapmsABC
rdisp/msserv_internal                       3902
enque/process_location                      REMOTESA
enque/serverhost                            abc-ascs-srv
enque/serverinst                            02
login/system_client                         001
j2ee/scs/host                               abc-scs-srv
j2ee/scs/system                             01
j2ee/ms/port                                3901
SAPDBHOST                                   abc-db-srv
j2ee/dbtype                                 ora
j2ee/dbname                                 ABC
j2ee/dbhost                                 abc-db-srv
rdisp/bufrefmode                            sendoff,exeauto
DIR_PUT                                     /usr/sap/$(SAPSYSTEMNAME)/put
Instance profile
SAPLOCALHOST                                abc-d00-srv
Startup profile
SAPLOCALHOST                                abc-d00-srv
Can you give me some idea as what can be done.
My DB is on abc-db-srv and as u can see my default profile for various parameter?
Regards
Prash

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