please also make sure you have set permissions for brtools correctly. (run saproot.sh SID with root user)
113747 - Owners and authorizations for BR*Tools
-rwsrwxr-- 1 orasid sapsys 10022600 Aug 23 2012 brarchive
-rwsrwxr-- 1 orasid sapsys 10251536 Aug 23 2012 brbackup
-rwsrwxr-- 1 orasid sapsys 12179560 Aug 23 2012 brconnect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sidadm sapsys 10708840 Aug 23 2012 brrecover
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sidadm sapsys 4140576 Aug 23 2012 brrestore
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sidadm sapsys 12778384 Aug 23 2012 brspace
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sidadm sapsys 4711664 Aug 23 2012 brtools
best regards
ashish