Kevin --

We run a nightly online backup and a weekly offline with TDP for R3 -- and
were doing the same when it was called 'backint'. There's no change to the
product, just the version. Our database is running at 560 GB (roughly) right
now. If you haven't done an online with backint yet, be advised that it's
not an incremental, it is a true full backup with the database up and open,
You will generate a fair number of redo logs during the backup, depending on
system activity at the time. As far as 'supported configuration' -- you
aren't currently in a supported configuration at all, and 'backint' the PRPQ
product is no longer supported. What you really have to pay attention to are
the version(s) of the TSM api that your version of backint will work with,
and the versions of SAP that it will work with.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wagner [mailto:kwagner1 AT STNY.RR DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 6:06 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: TSM and backint success stories
>
>
>  Has anyone had any success backing up SAP R3 online
> tablespaces to a TSM
>  server using backint versus Data Protection?
>  I haven't seen definitive answers as to whether backint will
> still work
> (i.e.a supported configuration).  I'd hate to think that TDP
> for SAP is the
> only way to run online backups of an SAP ORACLE database.
> We are going to upgrade (finally) from ADSM Server 3.1.20 to
> TSM 4.1, and
> we'd like to keep our backint product, especially given the
> hefty price tag
> of the TDP option.
>
>  I'd appreciate any success stories that anyone knows about.
> I searched
> the archives, but didn't see anything recent there.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  --k
>