Secure Backup Questions

Hi Experts,
We need a solution to backup 200+ Oracle server to a network drive (or multiple network drives as the case may be)
I have been tasked with finding a solution, so far Secure Backup seems to be the ideal product, but I have a few questions.
1. We require the backup to happen to a network disk, not a tape drive, I understand that we can use Virtual Tape Libraries to emulate a tape drive, are there any limitation to this and what VTL would you suggest?
2. Can we do incremental backups? If so is there a differential process that must run before the backup can occur? Some of the databases we need to backup are larger than 1 TB.
4. I'm struggling to get a quote out of Oracle, how much in USD can we expect to pay per server? a rough Ideas would help me make a decision about whether the project is viable or not.
Thanks very much for you help.
Regards,
Gregory Alexander

Oracle Secure Backup is licensing per physical tape drive. This is a single component licensing model which is very different that most other products which price per server, advanced feature etc.
As noted earlier in the thread, you can utilize a VTL to obtain disk like performance for file system and the Oracle database. You could also utilize the Flash Recovery Area as a unified disk backup location for the Oracle database using RMAN and then OSB can backup the Flash Recovery Area to tape.

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