Integration Concepts; Sap Backup And Restore Utilities - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Integration Manual

• 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
BRBACKUP
BRARCHIVE
BRRESTORE
You can back up Oracle data files in two different modes:
backint
RMAN
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Backs up control files, data files, and online redo log files.
Additionally, saves the profiles and logs relevant for a particular
backup session.
Backs up offline (archived) redo logs, written by Oracle to the
archiving directory.
Restores data backed up with BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE.
Data is backed up using the Data Protector SAP R/3 integration.
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.