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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
  3. Appendix G. Parameters used in initSID.utl
  4. switch_sem <control_file_path>
Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide

switch_sem <control_file_path>

This parameter specifies a control file that communicates between the NetBackup for SAP backint interface and brbackup. After the switch list file is created and closed, the NetBackup for SAP backint interface creates the switch semaphore file and waits until brbackup deletes it.

Note:

Not applicable in MaxDB database environments or in any Oracle database environments that use RMAN.

The switch_sem parameter must specify a file path in the following location:

$SAPDATA_HOME/sapbackup/.switch.sem

The following is an example of a valid entry:

switch_list /oracle/sap/sapbackup/.switch.sem

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