Integration Concepts; Backup And Restore Sessions; Supported Disk Arrays And Array Configurations - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Integration Manual

Table 8 on page 164 shows which restore methods are available, depending on the
ZDB session you restore from.
Table 8 Backup and restore sessions
ZDB type
ZDB to tape
ZDB to disk
ZDB to disk+tape
When the restore completes, you can recover the database to a specific point in time
using the SAP BRTOOLS interface.
Table 9 Supported disk arrays and array configurations
Supported array
EMC Symmetrix
HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP
(XP)
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual
Array (EVA)
HP StorageWorks Virtual Array
(VA)
This chapter provides information specific to the Data Protector SAP R/3 ZDB
integration. For general Data Protector procedures and options, see the online Help.
For details on ZDB terminology, ZDB types, advantages of offline and online backups,
and instant recovery concepts, see the HP Data Protector zero downtime backup
concepts guide.

Integration concepts

Figure 41 on page 165 shows the architecture of the Data Protector SAP R/3 ZDB
integration. The figure illustrates the preferred configuration, in which the Oracle
control file, online redo log files, and Oracle SPFILE reside on a different volume
group than the Oracle data files.
164 Data Protector SAP R/3 ZDB integration
Restore methods
Standard restore
Instant recovery
Standard restore, instant recovery
Supported configurations
TimeFinder, SRDF, combined SRDF+TimeFinder
BC, CA, combined BC+CA
BC, combined CA+BC
BC