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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup for SAP with Snapshot Client
  4. Mixing RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups
Veritas NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide

Mixing RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups

You can use the split-mirror full backups that use RMAN proxy with the standard incremental backups that use RMAN stream methods. For example, use RMAN proxy file-based backups for weekly full backups using snapshot methods. You can then use RMAN stream-based incremental backups for daily backups. To mix backup methods, perform the following additional configuration procedure.

To mix RMAN stream and RMAN proxy NetBackup for SAP backups

  1. Copy initSID.sap to the initFullSID.sap and initIIncrSID.sap files.
  2. Edit the init_fullSID.sap and initI_incrSID.sap.

    Edit the files as follows:

    • Specify the rman_parms parameter.

    • Set the NB_ORA_SAP environment variable to the initSID.utl path.

  3. Edit the init_fullSID.sap file.

    Do the following:

    • Enable the rman_proxy flag.

    • Set the following, where "auto_sched" is the name of the automatic schedule:

      rman_send = "'NB_ORA_PC_SCHED=auto_sched'"
  4. Copy following sample script to a different location on your client:

    on UNIX or Linux:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/db_ext/sap/scripts/sap_oracle/sap_rman_backup

    on Windows:

    install_path\NetBackup\DbExt\SAP\samples\sap_rman_backup.cmd
  5. On UNIX or Linux, modify the if..elif..fi condition as follows:
    if [ $SAP_FULL -eq 1 ]
    then CMD_LINE="$SAP_ENV brbackup -d rman_util -t offline -p initFullSID.sap -m full -c"
    elif [ $SAP_CINC -eq 1 ]
    then CMD_LINE="$SAP_ENV brbackup -d rman_util -t offline -p initIncrSID.sap -m incr -c"
  6. On Windows, modify the condition as follows:
    @if "%SAP_FULL%" EQU "1" @set CMD_LINE=%BRBACKUP% -u internal/ -c -d rman_util -t 
    offline -m full -p initFullSID.sap
    @if "%SAP_CINC%" EQU "1" @set CMD_LINE=%BRBACKUP% -u internal/ -c -d rman_util -t 
    offline -m incr -p initIncrSID.sap
  7. Specify the script from step 4 in the backup selection of your NetBackup for SAP policy

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