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

switch_log <control_file_path>

This parameter specifies a control file that communicates to the NetBackup for SAP backint interface from brbackup. After the switch semaphore file has been deleted, the NetBackup for SAP backint interface opens and reads the switch log file. to determine if brbackup was successful at making the file ready for snapshot or backup.

Note:

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

The switch_log parameter must specify a file path in one of the following locations:

$SAPDATA_HOME/sapbackup/.switch.log

The following are examples of valid entries:

switch_list /oracle/sap/sapbackup/.switch.log

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