Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
- 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 requirementsSAP server software requirements for NetBackup for SAP
- Requirements for using NetBackup for SAP in a NetBackup cluster
- Configuration and licensing requirements for NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
- About the 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 an SAP database
- 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 in Host Management
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client for NetBackup for SAP
- Performing 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 (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
- 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)
- Minimizing timeout 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
Modifying the initSID.sap file (NetBackup for SAP Oracle databases only)
The initSID.sap file is the SAP profile file. This file signals to the SAP tools that you use the backint interface and conveys information about NetBackup for SAP to the SAP tools. Edit this file as part of configuring NetBackup for SAP when the underlying database is Oracle.
To modify the initSID.sap file
- Check for an existing profile file.
If an initSID.sap file already exists in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs (%ORACLE_HOME%\database) directory, copy it to a backup file.
- Create a new profile file.
Copy the profile file that is included in the NetBackup for SAP software distribution to the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs (%ORACLE_HOME%\database) directory.
For example, if the Oracle instance is SAP, copy the NetBackup example .sap file to initSAP.sap, as follows:
Unix or Linux:
cp /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/db_ext/sap/scripts/sap_oracle/initSAP.sap \ $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initSAP.sap
Windows:
copy install_path\NetBackup\dbext\sap\scripts\initSAP.sap %ORACLE_HOME%\database\initSAP.sap
- Modify the initSID.sap file with a text editor to set the backup_dev_type and util_par_file parameters to values that are appropriate to your site.
- (Conditional) Specify the rman_parms parameter and set the NB_ORA_SAP environment variable.
Perform this step only if you use NetBackup for SAP on an Oracle database with RMAN. For example:
rman_parms = "ENV=(NB_ORA_SAP=file)"
where file specifies the full path to the initSID.utl file. Do not use substitution in the file specification.
For example, this parameter might look like the following:
Unix or Linux:
rman_parms = "ENV=(NB_ORA_SAP=/apps/oracle/dbs/initCER.utl)"
Windows:
rman_parms = "ENV=(NB_ORA_SAP=C:\apps\oracle\database\initCER.utl)"
Depending on your site practices, you might want to specify the following additional NetBackup environment variables and their values as arguments to the rman_parms parameter: NB_ORA_POLICY, NB_ORA_SCHED, NB_ORA_CLIENT, and NB_ORA_SERV. You can also specify values for these environment variables in the initSID.utl file. If you specify differing values, the ones in initSID.sap override those in initSID.utl.
For example, consider that you want to use one policy and schedule for the first part of a backup (data files). You want a different policy and schedule for the second part of a backup (the control file backup). You can set the NB_ORA_POLICY and NB_ORA_SCHED variables in initSID.sap to pertain to the first part of the backup. Then, you can set these variables to the different values that pertain to the second part of the backup in initSID.utl. NetBackup for SAP checks only initSID.utl when backing up the control files; it does not check initSID.sap.
You can include other RMAN parameters in this file. For more information on other parameters, see your SAP documentation.
- Save and close the initSID.sap file.