Originally posted by BV1963
My guess would be that NETBACKUP has its own internal DB which needs to be replicated in the remote site prior to attempting restore from the tape.
Yes, there is an internal dB. I'm hoping instead of replicating that, I can 'register' the tape with NB. The tape is bar coded.

When all that is said and done, I'm using my imagination that rman at the auxilary site will use the media management of (you guessed it) the auxilary site. I can invoke rman at the auxilary site and connect to the production target. And finally issue rman stuff.

ORACLE_SID=clone_sid # instance is started nomount
rman TARGET sys/password@production NOCATALOG AUXILIARY /

DUPLICATE
TARGET DATABASE TO clone_db
DEVICE TYPE sbt

I'm concerned though because this is production and I aint a pro at this. It may be a tad bit safer also to use a different directory structure in case i frick up and it writes to the prod server (in a different directory ie. LOG/DATA_FILE_NAME_CONVERT).

thinking out loud here.
thanx