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Is the Basis tape cartridge fit the tape drive that you have?
Assuming (always dangerous) that the tape is the same format as Basis shipped on diskette, the tap is a tar tape.
If you can find a...

An alternative is to create an image of the disk, and use it to create a virtual system.

There used to be a licencing application which was very popular with software vendors wanting licence control called FlexLM (standing for Flexible Licence Manager). This tied licence security to the...

The network card has a mac address, the cpu has a serial number. Of course if the network card is on board then effectively the software is tied to the motherboard. What version of Basis, I have...

It seems that your software is not protected via FlexLM then.

One of my (now ex) customers had a similar situation with his accounting software. When I finally got to a support person who knew the software it turned out that the program was tied to the system...

If your software is copy protected, then it is highly unlikely that restoring the system from a tape backup will allow you to run the application, as the inode numbers will be different.
Option 1 to...

Yes, to reinforce what edfair says it is extremely useful in a disaster recovery situation to know how the original disk was laid out. Edfair's post#5 is very important. I second that and reinforce...

Along with the above it might be good to have an idea of how the hard disk is arranged. Accomplished with divvy /dev/harddiskname. Also would help to know what accounting program or how it is set up...

You used the word RAID in your subject line, but since you only speak of one disk in the post itself, I am going to assume that you have a single SCSI disk.
Here are some approaches you might take....

Okay, I get the picture.

Do you have the install media for this O/S?

Does the machine have a floppy drive (that works)?
If so, you can make what is known as a "root & boot" set which will...

I am not familiar with SCO, but the command in the crontab will "just" copy the files and directories to the device /dev/rct0, which is most probably your attached tape drive.
This type of backup is...