Robert -

You may have to do the ugly step of checking out the original backup
(archive) for the off-site storage and track the tapes by hand.

Be aware that you need more than just the backint archive for recovery you
should have all the /oracle/<SID> and /usr/sap/<SID>, /sapmnt/<SID>
filesystems backed up or archived for point in time recovery, as well as all
the off-line redo logs (preferrably on two sets of tapes).

I run my backint archives to a seperate managment class for the production
system so I can check out only the production tapes (we do it nightly).

I'm about to set up one class for the nightly online backup, with an 8-day
retention, and one for the weekly off-line, with a 21-day retention. We keep
the redo logs 21 days. This will require two different
/oracle/<SID>/dbs/initSID.utl files, one for the online and one for the
offline backups, and an explicit override in the brbackup command.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fijan [mailto:robert.fijan AT LVA-WUERTTEMBERG DOT DE]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:34 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Sending SAP-Data OFFSITE
> 
> 
> Hello Gurus.
> 
> 
> I've the following question:
> 
> the management wants to send the last archive of the SAP-DB's offsite.
> 
> We are using BACKINT for SAP R/3. We have a seperate storage 
> pool for the
> DB's and
> 2 Pool's for the LOG'S. They only want the last "Full Backup" 
> of the DB's
> to go OFFSITE.
> 
> How can I do this? I thought of generating Backupstes, but 
> this doesn't
> work because the Data is archived.
> 
> When I do a backup stgpool, from the second week on I only get the
> incrementals of the Pool with the DB's.
> And the problem is, that the new 'FULL' of the DB's should 
> last only for
> one week OFFSITE, because
> we have only small capacity in our depot outside.
> 
> 
> Please help me with this.
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Robert Fijan
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