About backups and restores in an SAP environment

With NetBackup you can perform scheduled SAP backups, in accordance with a predefined backup strategy, or manual backups. These backups may not be planned and may be necessary in exceptional situations. The practices that are described here are based on the practices that are recommended by SAP in SAP/MS SQL Server 2000 DBA in CCMS.

The NetBackup backup and restore procedures for the SAP R/3 database are identical to the NetBackup procedures with any other SQL Server database.

You can create scripts to perform full or differential backups of databases and backups of transaction logs. In addition to the database backups and restores, NetBackup also provides the capabilities to back up the SAP file systems.