Hi,
We have moved from Tivoli TSM & System Backup/Recovery to Netbackup for supporting our SAP environment. This move was due to corporate standardization.
I initially figured, we would have the most trouble with setting up the SAP online brbackups using Netbackup. Not the case, this has worked fine for our SAP ECC(R3), ESS, BW(BI) & GRC environments. Unfortunately, these backups do not backup any of the JAVA content on our SAP systems with Java. I'm using a simple file system cold backup for these (SAP shutsdown for the backup). I ran a full restore test on a SAP ESS portal and a GRC system. Both systems have Java within "/usr/sap/SID". Oracle & SAP came up without issue and 99% of the application was useable. There were problems within the SAP administration identity management. These were fixed via a "undeploy/redeply" of the content Because the redeploy worked, that verifies the data was successfully restored, so why was there problems? Also, I did verify that the source systems did not have these issues. We ran the restore again with the same results. I also, ran a full "backup/restore" using the Tivoli system backup and recovery, this restored both systems without issue.
Our tests with the Netbackup restores:
SAP ECC(R3) cold backup full file system restore with Netbackup (AIX, Oracle, SAP, ABAP) - Successfully Restored
SAP ECC(R3) brrestore "point in time" restore with Netbackup (Oracle, SAP, ABAP) - Successfully Restored
SAP ECC(R3) brrestore "reset" restore with Netbackup online consistent Netbackup (Oracle, SAP) - Successfully Restored
SAP ESS (Etime portal) cold backup full file system restore with Netbackup (AIX, Oracle, SAP, Java) - Partially Successfull (Java issues)
SAP GRC cold backup full file system restore with Netbackup (AIX, Oracle, SAP, Java) - Partially Successfull (Java issues)
The file names within "/usr/sap/SID" are ridiculously long, I wonder if this could be the issue with the recovery. Yes, I'm getting condition code "0"s for both the backup and recovery, thus I would expect a simple file system restore would work without issue. Has anyone else seen these issues with restoring SAP systems with Java? I will also, be opening up a problem ticket with Symantec.
Thanks............................