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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

Configuration requirements for BLI backups with NetBackup for SAP

Before you configure BLI backups, make sure that your configuration meets the following requirements:

NetBackup for SAP is installed, licensed, and configured.
NetBackup Snapshot Client is installed and configured, and the primary server must have a valid license for this option.
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle must be installed and configured.
Veritas File System must have Storage Checkpoint licensed.

For more information see the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide.