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Dell EMC Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748-9103 1-508-435-1000 In North America 1-866-464-7381 www.DellEMC.com 2 NetWorker Module for SAP 18.2 Administration Guide CONTENTS Figures 9 Tables 11 Preface 13 Chapter 1 Overview of NMSAP Features 17 Road map for NMSAP operations............................................................... 18 Terminology that is used in this guide......................................................... 19 Importance of backups and the backup lifecycle.........................................19 NMSAP features for all supported applications.......................................... 20 Scheduled backups........................................................................20 Manual backups.............................................................................20 Client Direct feature.......................................................................21 Deduplication backups and restores with Data Domain...................21 Backups and restores with CloudBoost..........................................22 Backup configuration wizard..........................................................23 NMSAP features specific to SAP HANA.....................................................24 SAP HANA backups of redo logs................................................... 25 SAP HANA backups with a dynamic backup prefix........................ 25 SAP HANA delta backups.............................................................. 25 SAP HANA multitenant database container mode......................... 26 Support of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00................................................ 26 SAP HANA scale-out environments............................................... 27 SAP HANA system replication....................................................... 27 Internationalization with NMSAP HANA........................................ 28 NMSAP features specific to SAP Oracle.................................................... 28 Restores of Fujitsu NetWorker Module for SAP R/3 backups........28 Probe-based (event-based) backups.............................................29 Snapshot-based backups and restores.......................................... 29 Restartable backups...................................................................... 30 Cluster and Oracle RAC support....................................................30 Directory backups and restores..................................................... 30 Oracle ASM and Exadata support...................................................31 Internationalization with NMSAP Oracle........................................32 NMSAP Oracle recovery wizard.................................................... 33 Secure storage password and role-based secure storage.............. 34 Simplified scheduled backup configuration of multiple databases.... 35 Virtualization support.................................................................... 35 NMSAP and associated software............................................................... 36 NetWorker software......................................................................36 SAP server software......................................................................37 SAP HANA software...................................................................... 37 Oracle server software.................................................................. 37 NMSAP software components................................................................... 37 NetWorker Module for SAP 18.2 Administration Guide 3 CONTENTS Chapter 2 Configuration for NMSAP HANA Operations 39 Configuration road map for SAP HANA operations.....................................40 Verifying the NMSAP software requirements.............................................40 Configuring scheduled backups with the wizard..........................................41 Configuring scheduled backups with the wizard for SAP HANA delta backups......................................................................................... 42 Configuring scheduled backups with the wizard in an SAP HANA MDC system..................................................................................43 Configuring scheduled backups without the wizard....................................44 Setting up the NMSAP parameter file and configuration file......... 45 Configuring parallelism for SAP HANA operations......................... 55 Enabling the parameter file in SAP HANA Studio...........................56 Configuring the data protection policy with NMC..........................57 Configuring the Client resource without the wizard.......................59 Configuring manual backups....................................................................... 61 Configuring automatic backups of SAP HANA redo logs............................ 62 Configuring Data Domain Boost backups....................................................62 Requirements for DD Boost backups............................................. 63 Best practices for DD Boost backups............................................ 63 Configuring Client Direct with DD Boost backups..........................63 Configuring storage node with DD Boost backups.........................65 Configuring CloudBoost backups................................................................65 Best practices for CloudBoost backups......................................... 66 Configuring CloudBoost backups to use Client Direct....................66 Configuring CloudBoost backups to use a storage node................ 67 Configuring NMSAP backups to AFTD storage...........................................67 Configuring Client Direct backups to AFTD................................... 67 Configuring storage node backups to AFTD...................................68 Chapter 3 NMSAP HANA Operations 69 Performing scheduled backups of SAP HANA data.................................... 70 Testing scheduled backups............................................................70 Monitoring scheduled backups...................................................... 70 Canceling scheduled backups......................................................... 71 Performing manual backups and recovery with SAP HANA Studio..............71 Performing manual backups with SAP HANA Studio...................... 71 Deleting backups with SAP HANA Studio...................................... 72 Performing restore and recovery with SAP HANA Studio..............73 Performing manual backups and recovery with the SAP HANA CLI............76 Performing manual backups with the SAP HANA CLI.....................77 Canceling manual backups............................................................. 78 Checking NMSAP backups with the SAP HANA CLI......................79 Performing recovery with the SAP HANA CLI............................... 79 Preparing for SAP HANA disaster recovery................................................80 SAP HANA scale-out requirements............................................................. 81 Chapter 4 Configuration for NMSAP Oracle Operations 83 Configuration road map for NMSAP Oracle operations.............................. 84 Verifying the NMSAP software requirements.............................................84 Configuring I18N support............................................................................86 Requirements for I18N support......................................................86 Configuring I18N support on UNIX.................................................86 Choosing either backint or RMAN as the backup and restore utility........... 86 Specifying backint as the backup and restore utility...................... 87 4 NetWorker Module for SAP 18.2 Administration Guide CONTENTS Specifying RMAN as the backup and restore utility....................... 88 Configuring scheduled backups with the wizard......................................... 89 Configuring scheduled backups without the wizard.................................... 91 Configuring the NMSAP parameters without the wizard................91 Configuring the data protection policy with NMC..........................111 Configuring the Client resource without the wizard...................... 113 Configuring manual backups...................................................................... 116 Configuring restartable backups................................................................ 117 Configuring scheduled restartable backups with the wizard..........117 Configuring scheduled restartable backups without the wizard.... 117 Configuring manual restartable backups....................................... 118 Configuring Data Domain