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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for SAP
  4. About SAP configuration files
  5. Example NetBackup for SAP initSID.utl file
Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide

Example NetBackup for SAP initSID.utl file

The following shows example initSID.utl files with all the parameters required for NetBackup for SAP on Oracle databases:

UNIX or Linux:

policy sap_policy_1
schedule Default-Application-Backup
client puffin
server puffin
drives 2
switch_list /oracle/sap/sapbackup/.switch.lis
switch_sem /oracle/sap/sapbackup/.switch.sem
switch_log /oracle/sap/sapbackup/.switch.log

Windows:

policy sap_policy_1
schedule Default-Application-Backup
client puffin
server puffin
drives 2
switch_list F:\oracle\SID\SAPBackup\.switch.lis
switch_sem F:\oracle\SID\SAPBackup\.switch.sem
switch_log F:\oracle\SID\SAPBackup\.switch.log

Note:

The question mark (?) and ampersand (&) Oracle substitution characters and the $ORACLE_HOME (%ORACLE_HOME%) environment variable are not allowed in the initSID.utl file. They are not allowed in the par_file that the backint -p parfile option identifies.

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