Queries on tape drive configuration

Dear All,
I have some queries on tape drive configuration We are on windows 2003 , oracle 10g and ecc6 .
My requirements is to take backup on tape drive through brtools db13
Do that what need to be done at hardware and sap level means what tape device are there in market which support sap without buying any sap license
Please suggest in detail.
Regards,
Kumar

Hi,
If you are using only Tape device which is directly attached to your server locally, you won't need any license for that..
But if you are going to use any third party backup solution like "TIVOLI", then you may need purchase software and license if any..
Its depend on the software and the vendor...
Next thing, if your Tape device is locally attached to the server, you just need to install and configure device driver, so that your server operating system can recognized that hardware.
Then, you need to change the below parameters in "initSID.sap" profile which is under $ORACLE_HOME\dbs directory to take backup on tape.
backup_type = offline/online
backup_dev_type = tape
compress = hardware
archive_function = save_delete
rewind = "mt -f $ rewind"
rewind_offline = "mt -f $ offline"
tape_pos_cmd = "mt -f $ fsf $"
tape_size = 3600M (as per your tape size)
tape_address = /dev/nmt0
tape_address_rew = /dev/mt0
Leave the rest of the parameters as default.
You will be able to take backup using DB13 on tape.
Regards.
Rajesh Narkhede

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Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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first of all thanks for your reply
it's not newly installed and i'm not sure if it was working or not because i'm successor for an administrator who left job to new
by the way i rebooted to OBP multiple in hope that Solaris search for new peripherals and configure the one's it recognises.
times with no luck
anyways i ran prtconf bash-3.00# prtconf
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
Memory size: 8192 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
    scsi_vhci, instance #0
    packages (driver not attached)
        SUNW,builtin-drivers (driver not attached)
        deblocker (driver not attached)
        disk-label (driver not attached)
        terminal-emulator (driver not attached)
        SUNW,debug (driver not attached)
        dropins (driver not attached)
        kbd-translator (driver not attached)
        obp-tftp (driver not attached)
        SUNW,i2c-ram-device (driver not attached)
        SUNW,fru-device (driver not attached)
        ufs-file-system (driver not attached)
        hsfs-file-system (driver not attached)
    chosen (driver not attached)
    openprom (driver not attached)
        client-services (driver not attached)
    options, instance #0
    aliases (driver not attached)
    memory (driver not attached)
    virtual-memory (driver not attached)
    SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (driver not attached)
    memory-controller, instance #0
    SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+ (driver not attached)
    memory-controller, instance #1
    pci, instance #0
        ebus, instance #0
            flashprom (driver not attached)
            i2c, instance #0
                nvram, instance #0
                idprom (driver not attached)
                dimm-fru, instance #1
                dimm-fru, instance #2
                dimm-fru, instance #3
                dimm-fru, instance #4
                dimm-fru, instance #5
                dimm-fru, instance #6
                dimm-fru, instance #7
                dimm-fru, instance #8
            bbc (driver not attached)
            power (driver not attached)
            i2c, instance #1
                cpu-fru, instance #9
                temperature, instance #0
                cpu-fru, instance #10
                temperature, instance #1
                fan-control, instance #0
                motherboard-fru, instance #11
                ioexp, instance #0
                ioexp, instance #1
                ioexp, instance #2
                fcal-backplane, instance #12
                remote-system-console, instance #13
                power-distribution-board, instance #14
                power-supply, instance #15
                power-supply, instance #16
                rscrtc (driver not attached)
            beep, instance #0
            rtc, instance #0
            gpio, instance #0
            pmc, instance #0
            parallel, instance #0
            rsc-control, instance #0
            rsc-console, instance #1
            serial, instance #0
        network, instance #0
        usb, instance #0
            mouse, instance #3
            keyboard, instance #2
        scsi, instance #0
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #6
        scsi, instance #1
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
        SUNW,XVR-100, instance #0
    pci, instance #1
        SUNW,qlc, instance #0
            fp (driver not attached)
                disk (driver not attached)
            fp, instance #1
                ssd, instance #1
                ssd, instance #0
        scsi, instance #2
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            st, instance #18
        scsi, instance #3
            disk (driver not attached)
            tape (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #7 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #8 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #9 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #10 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #11 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #12 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #13 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #14 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #15 (driver not attached)
            sd, instance #16 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #0 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            st, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #0 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #1 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #2 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #3 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #4 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #5 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #6 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #7 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #8 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #9 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #10 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #11 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #12 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #13 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #14 (driver not attached)
            ses, instance #15 (driver not attached)
    ramdisk-root, instance #0
    os-io (driver not attached)
    iscsi, instance #0
    pseudo, instance #0
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