SAP db Backup to removable media

[Ramma]

Hi Gurus,

I am running SAP ECC 6.0 on Sunfire V445 servers with an Oracle DB. My OS is Solaris 9(SunOS 5.9). I would like to back up my SAP database onto an external hard drive and restore it on another similar server at a different location. Any suggestions on how I can do this??

I would really appreciate the help

Thanks!

[Zoom]

Hi,

I got that working for Windows, so I am adapting my response for Unix. I have not
tried this with Solaris.

Suppose that Solaris displays your external drive as a directory, say, /ext, and you want to
backup to /ext/dbbackup

If you intend to backup using SAP tools such as brbackup, adapt your init<SID>.sap
file (Typically in /oracle/<SID>/102/database) and change the following parameters:

backup_root_dir = /ext/dbbackup
backup_dev_type = disk (Again this works for Windows, which handles the external
drive as a disk. I am not sure how this works for Solaris)

Then, use brbackup to backup.

I restore by copying the files, instead of using brrecover or brtools.

[Portal]

Hello,

In other words: you would like to do a homogeneous system copy.

The easiest way is to take/copy an existing backup to the new host and restore it. If you have no access to the existing backups or the backup can not be restored on the new host ... then ... there is something fishy

The brbackup can save data to any hard disk available on your system (-t disk). Check the online help about the required parameters.

If you never do system copy then you should also find some guides about it.

Regards,
Portal