RMAN Simulation for tape:

You can test RMAN tape utility without any media manager

CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE sbt PARMS 'SBT_LIBRARY=oracle.disksbt, ENV=(BACKUP_DIR=/u01/app/oracle/backup/)' format '%U.bck';

CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO 'sbt';

CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE PARALLELISM 2 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET;

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;

CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT to 'control_file_%F.bck';

***without tape manager or storage, you can make rman sbt tests on local disk with this parameter

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