BE2012 Agent for SAP (EOL)

[mnh]

Hi everyone

Today, I read in the Software Compatibility List of Backup Exec 2012 that the Agent for SAP has reach end-of-life and is no longer supported with BE2012 (page 48). On the other hand, there is also a note that SAP is supported by BE Server 32-bit and 64bit (page 33-35, Symantec and 3rd Party Software Compatibility 64-bit and 32-bit Interoperability). Unfortunately, I'm a little confused now. Can anybody tell me if there will be a possibility to backup and restore SAP systems with BE2012 (in a similar way it was possible in BE2010)?

Thanks!

[AmolB]

Agent for SAP and Agent for Solaris will be disconntinued in BE2012.

[John_Chisari]

What is your database for SAP, MS SQL or Oracle?  In BE2012 you will need either option to backup SAP.

[pkh]

The SAP database can be spread over a couple of databases,  Using either the SQL or Oracle agent will not backup the SAP database as a logical whole and when you restore the individual databases, you may end up with an inconsistent SAP database.

[pkh]

@mnh - As previously advised, SAP is not supported in BE 2012.  The BE 2012 SCL needs to be cleaned up.  The fact that SAP is not supported in BE 2012 is re-inforced by page 76 of the BE 2010 SCL which states that it will not be supported in the next release of BE.

BE 2010|2010 R2|2010 R3 Software (SCL)

Also, see this reply to an Idea

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/ideas/agent-sap-64-bit-os#comment-5609631

[John_Chisari]

Interesting, this question was asked of Symantec in a recent webinar for BE2012 - the answer was to use either the SQL or Oracle agent.  Something I am going to have to follow up with them.

[pkh]

If the SQL or Oracle agent is sufficient to backup SAP, why is there a SAP agent?  Likewise, Sharepoint is based on SQL Server, but you need a Sharepoint agent to backup a Sharepoint farm.