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NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-09-30

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)

Introduction to NetBackup for SAP
1. About NetBackup for SAP
2. Features of NetBackup for SAP
3. Technical overview of NetBackup for SAP
4. Sequence of operation for NetBackup for SAP
5. Using NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases without RMAN
6. Using NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases with RMAN
7. SAP tools overview
8. NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
Introduction to NetBackup SAP HANA
1. About NetBackup for SAP HANA
2. NetBackup for SAP HANA databases
Installing NetBackup for SAP
1. Planning the installation of NetBackup for SAP
2. Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
3. NetBackup server and client requirements
4. SAP server software requirements
5. Requirements for using NetBackup for SAP MaxDB, SAP Oracle, and SAP HANA in a NetBackup cluster
6. Configuration and licensing requirements for NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
7. License for NetBackup for SAP
8. Copying the SAP binary file (Windows Oracle databases without RMAN only)
9. Linking NetBackup for SAP with backint (UNIX or Linux Oracle databases without RMAN only)
10. Linking the Oracle instances with the SBT library (UNIX or Linux Oracle databases with RMAN only)
Installing NetBackup for SAP HANA
1. Planning the installation
2. Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility for NetBackup for SAP HANA
3. NetBackup server and client requirements for NetBackup for SAP HANA
4. SAP HANA software requirements for NetBackup for SAP HANA
Configuring NetBackup for SAP
1. About configuring NetBackup for SAP
2. About configuring a backup policy for SAP
3. NetBackup for SAP backup scripts
4. Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for SAP
5. About SAP configuration files
6. Backing up files mounted with LOFS with NetBackup for SAP (UNIX or Linux)
8. Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings
9. Configuring the Maximum jobs per client
10. Perform a manual backup
11. Testing multiple concurrent backup jobs for NetBackup for SAP for Oracle (without RMAN)
Configuring NetBackup for SAP HANA
1. About configuring the primary and the media servers
2. Configuring the media server for NetBackup SAP HANA
3. Configuring the primary server for NetBackup SAP HANA
4. Configuring the NetBackup client
  1. Updating the initsap.utl file
5. Configuring the SAP HANA Agent
  1. Node level configuration
  2. SAP HANA backint configuration
6. Configuring SAP HANA instance for redirected restore
Performing backups and restores of SAP
1. Using NetBackup for SAP to perform a backup
2. Using BRTools to start an SAP backup (for Oracle database only)
  1. Performing an SAP offline backup with SAPDBA
  2. Performing brbackup online SAP backups
3. Performing an SAP archive
  1. Using the NetBackup multiple copies feature to create an SAP archive
  2. Using two brarchive commands in sequence to create an SAP archive
4. Performing SAP restores using the SAPDBA utility (SAP on Oracle databases only)
5. Redirecting a restore to a different client (SAP on Oracle databases only)
6. SAP redirected restore sample environment (UNIX)
7. Disaster recovery using BRRECOVER
8. Restarting failed NetBackup for SAP backups and restores
  1. Restarting NetBackup for SAP backups
  2. Restarting SAP database restores on Oracle
Performing backups and restores of SAP HANA
1. About backups and restores of SAP HANA
2. Using the SAP HANA studio for backup
3. Using the SAP HANA studio for restore
4. Using SAP HANA studio for SAP HANA instance redirected restore
NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
1. NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client overview
2. Using NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client to back up large databases
3. How the NetBackup for SAP Snapshot Client works
4. Configuration requirements for snapshot backups with NetBackup for SAP
5. About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for SAP
6. About configuring NetBackup for SAP block-level incremental backups on UNIX
7. About restoring individual files from a NetBackup for SAP snapshot backup
8. About NetBackup for SAP restores of volumes and file systems using snapshot rollback
9. About NetBackup for SAP sample backup scripts (UNIX or Linux)
10. About NetBackup for SAP sample backup scripts (Windows)
11. Mixing RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups
12. Performing user-directed snapshot backups with NetBackup for SAP
NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
1. About NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
2. About configuring NetBackup for SAP on MaxDB databases
3. Creating a backup medium for NetBackup for SAP
4. Using NetBackup for SAP on a MaxDB database to perform backups and restores
Troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP and SAP HANA
1. About troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP
2. NetBackup debug logs and reports
3. sapdba logs and messages (Oracle-based SAP environments only)
  1. NetBackup for SAP backup and restore log files
  2. NetBackup for SAP archive log files
4. NetBackup SAP Oracle backup jobs fail with error 90
5. NetBackup for SAP Oracle backup fails
6. Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
7. About troubleshooting NetBackup for SAP HANA
8. Disaster recovery of an SAP Hana database
Appendix A. backint command line interface
1. About backint command line interface for SAP
  1. About the BC-BRI BACKINT Interface
2. About backint command line interface for SAP HANA
Appendix B. Input and output files for SAP HANA
1. About input and output files for SAP HANA
Appendix C. backint -i in_file contents
1. About backint -i in_file contents
Appendix D. backint -o out_file contents
1. About backint -o out_file contents
Appendix E. NetBackup for SAP environment variables for backint
1. NetBackup for SAP backint interface environment variables
Appendix F. NetBackup for SAP configuration or bp.conf file settings
1. NetBackup for SAP configuration or bp.conf file settings
Appendix G. Parameters used in initSID.utl
1. About parameters used in initSID.utl
2. initSID.utl parameter summary
3. backup_stream_buffersize <size>
4. client <client_name>
5. custom_sort_file <file_path>
6. drives <number_of_drives>
7. inquiry_query_period <months>
8. master_time_offset <minutes> (UNIX or Linux)
9. multistream_restore
10. policy <policy_name>
11. policy2 <policy_name>
12. restore_stream_buffersize <size>
13. retry_backup <number_of_retries>
14. schedule <schedule_name>
15. schedule2 <schedule_name>
16. server <server_name>
17. sort_backup_type <value>
  1. sort_backup_type custom
  2. sort_backup_type device
  3. sort_backup_type drive
  4. sort_backup_type size (default)
18. sort_restore_type <value>
  1. sort_restore_type custom
  2. sort_restore_type drive
  3. sort_restore_type image (default)
19. switch_list <control_file_path>
20. switch_log <control_file_path>
21. switch_sem <control_file_path>
Appendix H. Configuring split mirror backups
1. About configuring split mirror backups
2. Local-host snapshot method: nbu_snap (Solaris SPARC platform only)
3. Local-host snapshot method: VxVM (Solaris SPARC, HP-UX, Windows)
4. Local-host snapshot method: VxFS_Checkpoint (UNIX or Linux)
5. Off-host alternate client, FlashSnap method
6. Off-host alternate client, VVR method (Solaris SPARC, HP-UX)
7. Hardware array-based snapshot method: Hitachi Shadow Image, EMC TimeFinder, HP Business Copy (UNIX or Linux)
Appendix I. Register authorized locations
1. Registering authorized locations used by a NetBackup database script-based policy

Features of NetBackup for SAP

Table: NetBackup for SAP features and descriptions shows NetBackup for SAP's main features and introduces some terms that are used in this documentation.

Table: NetBackup for SAP features and descriptions

Feature	Description
Media and device management	All the devices supported by Media Manager are available to NetBackup for SAP.
Scheduling facilities	NetBackup scheduling facilities on the primary server can be used to schedule automatic and unattended SAP backups. This feature also lets you choose the times when these operations can occur. For example, to prevent interference with normal daytime operations, you can schedule your database backups to occur only at night.
Multiplexed backups and restores	NetBackup for SAP lets you take advantage of NetBackup's multiplexing capabilities. Multiplexing directs multiple data streams to one backup device, thereby reducing the time necessary to complete the operation.
Transparent SAP and regular file system backup and restore operations	All backups and restores run simultaneously and transparently without any action from the NetBackup administrator. The database administrator can run database backup and restore operations through NetBackup. An administrator or any other authorized user can use NetBackup to run database backups and restores.
Sharing the same storage units that are used for other file backups	It is possible to share the same devices and media that is used for other backups or to give SAP exclusive use of certain devices and media. NetBackup for SAP can use Media Manager, disk, and Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage units.
Centralized and networked backup operations	From the NetBackup primary server, you can schedule database backups or start them manually for any client. The SAP databases can also reside on hosts that are different from the devices on which NetBackup stores the backups.
User interfaces	NetBackup provides the following user interfaces: NetBackup web UI Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface A database administrator or NetBackup administrator can start backup or restore operations for SAP from the NetBackup user interface on the primary server.
Parallel backup and restore operations	NetBackup for SAP supports the parallel backup and restore capabilities of SAP Tools. For example, this permits the user to run more than one tape device at a time for a single SAP backup or restore, thereby reducing the time necessary to complete the operation.
Compression	Compression increases backup performance over the network and reduces the size of the backup image that NetBackup writes to the storage unit. NetBackup for SAP supports compression for the following types of backups: Stream-based backups through both MaxDB and RMAN. File-based backups through backint. Snapshot Client backups through backint. NetBackup for SAP does not support compression for Snapshot Client backups through RMAN.