Johan,

Contact your Veritas rep or reseller.  They should be able to provide 
you with an eval key since you already have the module in your CD kit.  
I agreee with Panos, the Legato method is probably using a SAP add-on 
module.

Good Luck.

Tsiamis, Panagiotis wrote:

>Hi Johan,
>I don't think Legato Networker can backup a SAP (or any) database straight
>to tape without the appropriate add-on module (SQL_Server, or the
>SAP_on_Oracle ones). That was the case with Networker 6.1.3 I've worked with
>and I wouldn't think they changed that in version 7.
>The thing with Legato (unlike Veritas) is that they provide 60-day trial
>keys for all their products in the supplied media kit, so I would assume
>that your client is probably using a module for they SAP_DB in evaluation
>mode.
>
>The advantage of using an add-on module - assuming they have their SAP on MS
>SQL Server (and this stands true for both Networker and NetBackup) - is that
>they talk straight to the SQL Server using the Virtual Device Interface
>(VDI) API, so it's not really a surprise that Legato is backing up their
>databases faster (although the times differences as you describe them are
>really amazing).  
>I would think that  similar principles are used with Oracle or other
>databases.
>
>For a proper evaluation you would have to try backing up using the same
>method (i.e. dumping the DBs on disk and then back them up - assuming you
>cannot get a key for the NetBackup add-on module) and then compare the
>results.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Regards,
>
>Panos 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johan Redelinghuys [mailto:jredelinghuys AT stortech.co DOT za]
>Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:01 AM
>To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] SAP_DB backups.
>
>
>Hi All
>
>We've got a client that uses SAP_DB. We setup Netbackup (4.5_2) to backup
>the data. The data gets staged to disk and then to tape, as there is no
>Netbackup agent that we can use to backup directly to tape. This work fine
>but the backup takes long to complete.
>
>The client installed Legato to compare. Legato can backup straight to tape.
>The back on Legato takes 1 hour compared to 3 hours on Netbackup. Is there
>any other way that we can setup Netbackup to compete with Lergato?
>
>JR
>Jredelinghuys AT stortech.co DOT za
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