You configure the SAP DB software with the aim of connecting the SAP DB database tools for saving, restoring, unloading, or loading data to the Backint for Oracle interface of an external backup tool.
· Your external backup tool has a Backint for Oracle interface.
· The version of your SAP DB database system supports the connection of a Backint for Oracle interface (see: Restrictions for Using Backint for Oracle).
· Your Backint for Oracle program is able to save any files in a file system, even if you do not have an Oracle database system installed on your host.
To connect the SAP DB to the Backint for Oracle interface, perform the following steps:
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1. Configure the Backint for Oracle interface of the external backup tool according to the instructions of the vendor. If you have to create a configuration file for this, you have to specify its name in the parameter file of the adapter program (see step 2).
2.
Create the parameter
file for the SAP DB adapter program
This file connects the SAP DB with the external backup tool. If necessary, also enter the name of the
configuration file of the external backup tool in this file (see step
1).
3.
Create the
configuration file for Backint for SAP DB (case
1)
This file connects the Database Manager with the SAP DB adapter
program. Also enter the name of
the parameter file of the SAP DB adapter program in this file (see step
1).
4. Set the environment variables BSI_ENV for the program DBM server.
5. Export the environment variables of the external backup tool if this is allowed by the vendor of the external backup tool.