Database Software

Dear all,

I would like to use a tape streamer, an HP SureStore DAT40i, a SCSI-3 device, for Oracle backups to tapes. I'm looking for an adeguate Media Manager Library to employ.

I tried to use Oracle Secure Backup and I would really like to find out a solution to drawbacks I've met. Here is RMAN output (unfortunately it's in Italian, but error codes are shown):

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RMAN> run {

2> allocate channel oem_sbt_backup type 'sbt_tape' format '%U';

3> backup as COMPRESSED BACKUPSET current controlfile tag '01212009034618';

4> restore controlfile validate from tag '01212009034618';

5> release channel oem_sbt_backup;

6> }

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-03009: errore del comando allocate sul canale oem_sbt_backup in 01/21/2009 15:50:03

ORA-19554: errore nell'allocare il dispositivo, tipo dispositivo: SBT_TAPE, nome dispositivo:

ORA-27023: skgfqsbi: errore di protocollo di Media Manager

ORA-19511: ? stato ricevuto un errore dal layer del gestore supporti, testo dell'errore:

sbt__rpc_connect: Internal error - could not connect to obproxyd (Oracle Secure Backup error: 'timeout on ping/connect (FSP Inter Process Communication functions)').

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Actually, if someone can help me in finding a solution to this, I would very happy, otherwise I thought to use HP OpenView Storage Data Protection, instead, but I don't know anything about this software and I don't know how time-consuming making it properly work might be. Does anybody know whether this tool will solve my back up issue?

Thank you,
cheers,
Pietro M. Picca