I have a lot of Solaris & Windows machines that run SAP on Oracle or SQL
Server. For less mission-critical test and development SAP instances, I'd
like to find out what methods other people out there among NetBackup users
use to back them up "online" to either disk or tapes.

Is using the standard NetBackup SAP agent software the only option for its
online consistent backup and restoration? Or, can anyone share other more
cost-effective way? Each NetBackup SAP agent license per host seems to be
quite expensive.

Thanks in advance!


- Young