Restore SAP Backups using RMAN
Hi
we are trying to do a desaster recovery test for SAP on Oracle. After having done successful backups the sap admin tries to recover the oracle database based on the backups we did with the b...
There is a difference in policy type using Oracle RMAN or SAP RMAN. Oracle is using type 4 and SAP uses type 17. Make sure you use SAP brtools or RMAN, but don't mix them. If you do a bpimagelist of the object in question field 8 of the IMAGE line will show you the recorded client type.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH5584
Update:
Also set the Netbackup variables when restoring using brtools:
setenv NB_ORA_SAP=dummy (force client type 17)
setenv SAP_CLIENT={client}
setenv NB_ORA_CLIENT={client}
init{SID}.sap
backup_dev_type = rman_util
rman_filesperset = 64
rman_parms = "BLKSIZE=65536 ENV=(NB_ORA_SAP=dummy, SAP_CLIENT={client}, NB_ORA_CLIENT={client})"
util_par_file = init{SID}.utl
