Integration concepts, Sap backup and restore utilities – HP A.06.11 User Manual

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To the original location

To another client

To another directory

You can restore Data Protector backups using:

The Data Protector user interface

The SAP BRTOOLS user interface

When the restore completes, you can recover the database to a specific point in time
using the SAP BRTOOLS interface.

This chapter provides information specific to the Data Protector SAP R/3 integration.
For general Data Protector procedures and options, see the online Help.

Integration concepts

This integration links SAP backup and restore tools (BR*Tools) with Data Protector.
Because the SAP R/3 application runs on top of Oracle databases, the SAP R/3
backup objects are very similar to those of Oracle. The main difference is that SAP
backup utilities hide the database from Data Protector, which sees those objects as
plain files.

SAP tools can be started using the Data Protector interface or the SAP BRTOOLS
interface.

Table 10 SAP backup and restore utilities

Backs up control files, data files, and online redo log files.
Additionally, saves the profiles and logs relevant for a particular
backup session.

BRBACKUP

Backs up offline (archived) redo logs, written by Oracle to the
archiving directory.

BRARCHIVE

Restores data backed up with BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE.

BRRESTORE

You can back up Oracle data files in two different modes:

Data is backed up using the Data Protector SAP R/3 integration.

backint

Data is backed up using the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN).
The main benefit of the RMAN mode is that you can back up Oracle
database incrementally.

RMAN

Integrating SAP R/3 and Data Protector

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