Hi Experts,

HP backup application invokes RMAN backup script like

run {
allocate channel 'dev_1' type 'sbt_tape';
backup incremental level filesperset 1
....
..
.

And during execution folowwing error appear:

Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production

RMAN-06005: connected to target database: CIS (DBID=3980547323)
RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog

RMAN> 2> 3>
RMAN-03022: compiling command: allocate
RMAN-03023: executing command: allocate
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03007: retryable error occurred during execution of command: allocate

RMAN-07004: unhandled exception during command execution on channel dev_1

RMAN-10035: exception raised in RPC: ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
ORA-19557: device error, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:

ORA-27000: skgfqsbi: failed to initialize storage subsystem (SBT) layer
Additional information: 4110

ORA-19511: SBT error = 4110, errno = 0, BACKUP_DIR environment variable is not set

RMAN-10031: ORA-19624 occurred during call to DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE.DEVICEALLOCATE


When I'm trying to change type of channel to 'disk', -
all command completed succesfully.

Maybe Oracle need some modification to support SBT_TAPE type or something?

Thanks in advance.