NetBackup for SAP backup types

Table: SAP backup types shows the backup schedules you can specify.

Table: SAP backup types

Backup type	Description
Application Backup	The Application Backup schedule enables user-controlled NetBackup operations from the client. These operations include those initiated from the client and those initiated from an automatic schedule on the master server. Configure at least one Application Backup schedule for each database policy. The Default-Application-Backup schedule is configured automatically as an Application Backup schedule.
Automatic Full Backup	An automatic full backup schedule specifies the dates and times for NetBackup to automatically start backups. NetBackup runs the scripts in the order that they appear in the file list. If there is more than one client in the policy, the scripts are run on each client. The schedule name and type are passed to the scripts so they can distinguish initiation from a full vs incremental schedule and operate appropriately.
Automatic Incremental Backup	An automatic incremental backup is a backup of only those blocks that have changed since the last automatic full (baseline) backup. This kind of backup takes less time and space than a full backup because the automatic incremental backup contains only the changed data. NetBackup for SAP supports this type of backup in MaxDB environments and in Oracle environments with RMAN. This schedule type has no direct value in Oracle environments without RMAN because a file level backup, and not the block level backup, is performed.

Backup type

Description

Application Backup

The Application Backup schedule enables user-controlled NetBackup operations from the client. These operations include those initiated from the client and those initiated from an automatic schedule on the master server. Configure at least one Application Backup schedule for each database policy. The Default-Application-Backup schedule is configured automatically as an Application Backup schedule.

Automatic Full Backup

An automatic full backup schedule specifies the dates and times for NetBackup to automatically start backups. NetBackup runs the scripts in the order that they appear in the file list. If there is more than one client in the policy, the scripts are run on each client. The schedule name and type are passed to the scripts so they can distinguish initiation from a full vs incremental schedule and operate appropriately.

Automatic Incremental Backup

An automatic incremental backup is a backup of only those blocks that have changed since the last automatic full (baseline) backup. This kind of backup takes less time and space than a full backup because the automatic incremental backup contains only the changed data.

NetBackup for SAP supports this type of backup in MaxDB environments and in Oracle environments with RMAN.

This schedule type has no direct value in Oracle environments without RMAN because a file level backup, and not the block level backup, is performed.

NetBackup for SAP backup types

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