Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for SAP
- Introduction to NetBackup SAP HANA
- Installing NetBackup for SAP
- Installing NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Configuring NetBackup for SAP
- About configuring a backup policy for an SAP database
- NetBackup for SAP backup scripts
- About SAP configuration files
- Configuring NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Performing backups and restores of SAP
- Using BRTools to start an SAP backup (for Oracle database only)
- Performing an SAP archive
- Restarting failed NetBackup for SAP backups and restores
- Performing backups and restores of SAP HANA
- NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
- How the NetBackup for SAP Snapshot Client works
- About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for SAP
- About configuring NetBackup for SAP block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- Configuring policies for BLI backups with NetBackup for SAP
- About NetBackup for SAP restores of volumes and file systems using snapshot rollback
- NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP and SAP HANA
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- sapdba logs and messages (Oracle-based SAP environments only)
- About troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Appendix A. backint command line interface
- Appendix B. Input and output files for SAP HANA
- Appendix C. backint -i in_file contents
- Appendix D. backint -o out_file contents
- Appendix E. NetBackup for SAP environment variables for backint
- Appendix F. NetBackup for SAP configuration or bp.conf file settings
- Appendix G. Parameters used in initSID.utl
- sort_backup_type <value>
- sort_restore_type <value>
- Appendix H. Configuring split mirror backups
- Appendix I. Register authorized locations
Performing brbackup online SAP backups
You can use brbackup instead of sapdba to perform SAP database backups. This section shows an online backup with dynamic switching of files into and out of backup mode. You can change the backup_type and backup_dev_type by changing the initSAP.sap parameter file or by specifying -t online and and - d util_file_online on the brbackup command. Here is what these changes look like in the initSAP.sap file:
backup_type = online
backup_dev_type = util_file_online
This backup method allows sapdba or brbackup to use the switch files with the NetBackup for SAP backint interface. This method provides a better online backup for very large files because only the necessary tablespaces are placed in backup mode. When NetBackup is ready to process another file, it notifies brbackup to take the completed file out of backup mode and put the next file into backup mode.
To perform brbackup online SAP backups
- Verify that you have completely configured NetBackup, NetBackup for SAP, and the SAP tools.
- Verify that you are user sapadm.
Enter the brbackup command.
To initiate an online backup, enter the following command:
brbackup -d util_file_online -t online -m all
To initiate a full backup when you use RMAN, enter the following command:
brbackup -d rman_util -t online -m full -c
To initiate an incremental backup when you use RMAN, enter the following command:
brbackup -d rman_util -t online -m incr -c