Setting Up an Automatic Backup

Use

You can use the timer source system and an implementation of enhanced notification processing delivered by SAP to set up a periodic automatic data backup.

Set Up Automatic Data Backup

In the menu of the Management Console, choose Start of the navigation pathPlant Connectivity Next navigation step Set Up Automatic BackupEnd of the navigation path, to generate an example configuration automatically for creating automatic data backups. The system creates a source system and an associated agent instance with the name _AutoBackupConfig. Adjust the execution plan of the timer in the source system _AutoBackupConfig to suit your needs and start the agent instance.

Set Up Automatic Data Backup Manually

If you want to set up the automatic data backup manually, proceed as follows:

  1. Create a timer source system Q and define a timer T in it with the appropriate execution plan. (See also: Timer Source System.)

  2. Create an agent instance A for source system Q and browse to generate a subscription item S for timer T.

  3. On the Notification Processing tab, in the Enhanced Notification Processing screen section, select the option Automatic Configuration Backup.

    This selects the default implementation for automatic backup of the configuration. (See also: Enhanced Notification Processing.)

  4. Create the destination system for this notification processing by choosing the Create Destination System pushbutton on this tab.

  5. Create a static notification for agent instance A.

  6. On the Output tab of the notification, generate the output expression for subscription item S by choosing the Generate Expressions pushbutton.

  7. On the Destinations tab, assign the destination system /Enhanced Notification Processing to the notification. No other settings are required.

Local Backup

If you choose Start Agent Instance after setting up the automatic backup, the Management Console stores a local backup of the configuration at each time specified by the timer of the timer source system in the directory %programdata%\SAP\Backup. If necessary, you can import this local backup without entering a password, but it is bound to the computer on which it was created.