Copying the SAP binary file (Windows Oracle databases without RMAN only)

[cruisen]

As stated in the Admin Guide release 7.5

SAP requires that all SAP tools be located in a predetermined directory. The directory path is as follows:
C:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\run

Unfortunatelly I cannot find such folder in our customer environment.

After a long search I found this:

http://www.stechno.net/sap-notes.html?view=sapnote&id=1078134

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3. Program directory of the SAP system runtime environment

Prior to Release 7.10, the system accessed programs that were saved under /usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/run (or similar). However, this path was usually a soft link to the directory /sapmnt/SID/exe. All changes in the /sapmnt/SID/exe directory were therefore also immediately effective in the SAP system runtime environment; in the standard system, there was also no way of creating or testing patches in a separate directory.
As already explained, programs continue to be saved in the /sapmnt/SID/exe/... directory as of Release 7.10, but the SAP system runtime environment no longer accesses them. Instead, the runtime environment programs are now saved under the instance of the /exe subdirectory, for example under /usr/sap/SID/DVEBMGS00/exe. The advantage of this process is that only those types of programs are saved under the instance that the instance uses (for example, for Windows Application Servers, the programs saved in the subdirectory /ntamd64 of /sapmnt/SID/exe). Another advantage is that any changes made in /sapmnt/SID/exe/... are immediately replicated in the SAP system runtime environment. The profile parameters DIR_EXECUTABLE and DIR_LIBRARY now point to the subdirectory /exe in the instance directory.

My question : Where should i copy the backint.exe file now

subdirectory /ntamd64

I 'v' the following: where brtools can be located.

                D:\usr\sap\PID\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64

                D:\usr\sap\PID\SYS\exe\uc\Kernel_SP193_NEU

                D:\usr\sap\PID\SYS\DVEBMGS00\exe

I don't know haow to backup with SAP agent.

Thanks for all your help

Cruisen

[Nicolai]

Read the Netbackup SAP manual page 29 ?  - Else hookup with the the SAP dba to resolve the issue.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5176

[cruisen]

Thank you Nicolai, this was not really helpful at all, page 29 is the page I took the information from. But it seams that after the product release SAP 7.10 the folder does not exist anymore in the SAP environment. I need to know where to copy now the backint.exe. I suppose it should be under  D:\usr\sap\PID\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64.

But is there someone that can confirm this.

Thanks anyway for you response.

Cruisen

[Mouse]

Your assumption is correct, the document is outdated and assumes SAP instance is 32-bit but is apparently 64-bit now

[Nicolai]

Log a call with Symantec and let them tell you what to do. If the manual is is outdated Symantec should release a tech note.

[cruisen · Accepted solution]

I found it, I should work for support :)

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH63856

Resolution:
Copy the backint provided by NetBackup to the SAP tools folder. Even the predetermined path documented in NetBackup for SAP for Windows System Administrator's Guide could be wrong.

The documented path for SAP tools is C:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\run, but on certain systems it has been found to be <drive>:\usr\sap\%ORACLE_SID%\sys\exe\uc\NTI386 (where <drive> is the drive letter where SAP is installed).

[Gael_Riguet]

I was facing the same situation and I thank you for this Technote! It works!

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH63856

Regards.