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Integrating SAP R/3 and Data Protector

Restoring an SAP R/3 Database

Restoring an SAP R/3 Database

You can restore SAP R/3 databases in any of the following ways:

•Use the Data Protector GUI or CLI.

•Use SAP R/3 commands.

Considerations

You cannot perform a restore of backups created by the Oracle RMAN using the Data Protector GUI or CLI.

Before you start to restore your data using the Data Protector User Interface, you need detailed information about backed up objects. See the following section on how to find the information you need to restore your data.

If your disk is full before a restore, restoring of a filesystem with SAP R/3 data that was backed up using the brbackup command will fail, because the brrestore command needs additional disk space for restoring the control file and archive redo log files. How much additional disk space you need depends on the amount of the backed up data.

Localized SAP R/3 Object Names When selecting objects for restore, Data Protector displays the actual names of the files as they are written to the filesystem and not SAP R/3 names, which are displayed when selecting objects for backing up. As a result, if the names contain non-ASCII characters, some of the characters may display different as in the backup specification, depending on your system settings (code pages or locale). This does not impact restore, which is still completed successfully, except on Windows systems where DBCS is not set to the same value as the default Windows character set for non-Unicode programs. See “Troubleshooting on Windows Systems” on page 215..

Note that in UNIX, you must start the GUI in UTF-8 locale in order to be able to switch the encodings.

For example, the database encoding is set to ja_JP.eucJP and runs on an HP-UX system. When selecting the objects for backup, the names are displayed correctly if the Data Protector encoding is set to the same encoding as the database, that is ja_JP.eucJP. For restore, the

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