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NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-03-18
Product(s):
NetBackup (11.0)
- Introduction to NetBackup for SAP
- About NetBackup for SAP
- Features of NetBackup for SAP
- Technical overview of NetBackup for SAP
- Sequence of operation for NetBackup for SAP
- Using NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases without RMAN
- Using NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases with RMAN
- SAP tools overview
- NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
- Introduction to NetBackup SAP HANA
- Installing NetBackup for SAP
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for SAP
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- SAP server software requirements
- Requirements for using NetBackup for SAP MaxDB, SAP Oracle, and SAP HANA in a NetBackup cluster
- Configuration and licensing requirements for NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
- License for NetBackup for SAP
- Copying the SAP binary file (Windows Oracle databases without RMAN only)
- Linking NetBackup for SAP with backint (UNIX or Linux Oracle databases without RMAN only)
- Linking the Oracle instances with the SBT library (UNIX or Linux Oracle databases with RMAN only)
- Installing NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Configuring NetBackup for SAP
- About configuring NetBackup for SAP
- About configuring a backup policy for SAP
- Adding a NetBackup for SAP policy
- About policy attributes
- NetBackup for SAP backup types
- Configure an application backup schedule
- Example application backup schedule
- Configure automatic backup schedules
- Example automatic backup schedule
- Schedule properties
- Add clients to a policy
- Adding NetBackup for SAP scripts to the backup selections list
- Rules for NetBackup for SAP scripts
- NetBackup for SAP backup scripts
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SAP
- About SAP configuration files
- Relationships between SAP database configuration files
- Modifying the initSID.utl file for NetBackup for SAP
- Example NetBackup for SAP initSID.utl file
- Modifying the initSID.sap file (NetBackup for SAP Oracle databases only)
- Example initSID.sap file (NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases only)
- Modifying the bsi.env file (NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases)
- Backing up files mounted with LOFS with NetBackup for SAP (UNIX or Linux)
- About permissions for NetBackup for SAP log files (UNIX)
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client
- Perform a manual backup
- Testing multiple concurrent backup jobs for NetBackup for SAP for Oracle (without RMAN)
- Configuring NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Performing backups and restores of SAP
- Using NetBackup for SAP to perform a backup
- Using BRTools to start an SAP backup (for Oracle database only)
- Performing an SAP archive
- Performing SAP restores using the SAPDBA utility (SAP on Oracle databases only)
- Redirecting a restore to a different client (SAP on Oracle databases only)
- SAP redirected restore sample environment (UNIX)
- Disaster recovery using BRRECOVER
- Restarting failed NetBackup for SAP backups and restores
- Performing backups and restores of SAP HANA
- NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
- NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client overview
- Using NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client to back up large databases
- How the NetBackup for SAP Snapshot Client works
- Configuration requirements for snapshot backups with NetBackup for SAP
- About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for SAP
- Configuring a snapshot policy for NetBackup for SAP
- About NetBackup for SAP backup types
- Prerequisites for instant recovery backups (UNIX or Linux)
- Configuring a snapshot policy with Instant Recovery for NetBackup for SAP
- Additional configuration required for NetBackup for SAP with Network Attached Storage (NAS) on UNIX or Linux
- Configuring a NAS snapshot policy for NetBackup for SAP on UNIX/Linux
- About configuring NetBackup for SAP block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- How BLI works with NetBackup for SAP (UNIX)
- About Nodata Storage Checkpoint and NetBackup for SAP
- About Fulldata Storage Checkpoint and NetBackup for SAP
- Storage Checkpoint configuration on the NetBackup for SAP client
- Configuration requirements for BLI backups with NetBackup for SAP
- Configuring policies for BLI backups with NetBackup for SAP
- About restoring individual files from a NetBackup for SAP snapshot backup
- About NetBackup for SAP restores of volumes and file systems using snapshot rollback
- About NetBackup for SAP sample backup scripts (UNIX or Linux)
- About NetBackup for SAP sample backup scripts (Windows)
- Mixing RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups
- Performing user-directed snapshot backups with NetBackup for SAP
- NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP and SAP HANA
- About troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Enabling the debug logs for a NetBackup for SAP client automatically (Windows)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (Windows) (NetBackup for SAP)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX)
- About the bphdb directory on the Windows database client
- About the bphdb directory on the UNIX database client
- About the backint directory on the UNIX database client
- About the backint directory on the Windows database client
- Setting the debug level on a Windows client
- Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
- About NetBackup server reports
- sapdba logs and messages (Oracle-based SAP environments only)
- NetBackup SAP Oracle backup jobs fail with error 90
- NetBackup for SAP Oracle backup fails
- Minimizing time-out failures on large database restores
- About troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP HANA
- Disaster recovery of an SAP Hana database
- 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
- About parameters used in initSID.utl
- initSID.utl parameter summary
- backup_stream_buffersize <size>
- client <client_name>
- custom_sort_file <file_path>
- drives <number_of_drives>
- inquiry_query_period <months>
- master_time_offset <minutes> (UNIX or Linux)
- multistream_restore
- policy <policy_name>
- policy2 <policy_name>
- restore_stream_buffersize <size>
- retry_backup <number_of_retries>
- schedule <schedule_name>
- schedule2 <schedule_name>
- server <server_name>
- sort_backup_type <value>
- sort_restore_type <value>
- switch_list <control_file_path>
- switch_log <control_file_path>
- switch_sem <control_file_path>
- Appendix H. Configuring split mirror backups
- About configuring split mirror backups
- Local-host snapshot method: nbu_snap (Solaris SPARC platform only)
- Local-host snapshot method: VxVM (Solaris SPARC, HP-UX, Windows)
- Local-host snapshot method: VxFS_Checkpoint (UNIX or Linux)
- Off-host alternate client, FlashSnap method
- Off-host alternate client, VVR method (Solaris SPARC, HP-UX)
- Hardware array-based snapshot method: Hitachi Shadow Image, EMC TimeFinder, HP Business Copy (UNIX or Linux)
- Appendix I. Register authorized locations
Mixing RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups
You can use the split-mirror full backups that use RMAN proxy with the standard incremental backups that use RMAN stream methods. For example, use RMAN proxy file-based backups for weekly full backups using snapshot methods. You can then use RMAN stream-based incremental backups for daily backups. To mix backup methods, perform the following additional configuration procedure.
To mix RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups
- Copy initSID.sap to the initFullSID.sap and initIIncrSID.sap files.
- Edit the init_fullSID.sap and initI_incrSID.sap.
Edit the files as follows:
Specify the rman_parms parameter.
Set the NB_ORA_SAP environment variable to the initSID.utl path.
- Edit the init_fullSID.sap file.
Do the following:
Enable the rman_proxy flag.
Set the following, where "auto_sched" is the name of the automatic schedule:
rman_send = "'NB_ORA_PC_SCHED=auto_sched'"
- Copy following sample script to a different location on your client:
on UNIX or Linux:
/usr/openv/netbackup/ext/db_ext/sap/scripts/sap_oracle/sap_rman_backup
on Windows:
install_path\NetBackup\DbExt\SAP\samples\sap_rman_backup.cmd
- On UNIX or Linux, modify the if..elif..fi condition as follows:
if [ $SAP_FULL -eq 1 ] then CMD_LINE="$SAP_ENV brbackup -d rman_util -t offline -p initFullSID.sap -m full -c" elif [ $SAP_CINC -eq 1 ] then CMD_LINE="$SAP_ENV brbackup -d rman_util -t offline -p initIncrSID.sap -m incr -c"
- On Windows, modify the condition as follows:
@if "%SAP_FULL%" EQU "1" @set CMD_LINE=%BRBACKUP% -u internal/ -c -d rman_util -t offline -m full -p initFullSID.sap @if "%SAP_CINC%" EQU "1" @set CMD_LINE=%BRBACKUP% -u internal/ -c -d rman_util -t offline -m incr -p initIncrSID.sap
- Specify the script from step 4 in the backup selection of your NetBackup for SAP policy