Verifying a Database Backup with BR*Tools 

Use

You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to verify a database backup. BRRESTORE performs the verify.

For more information about database verify, see Backup Verify.

Prerequisites

·        Make sure that you have set the necessary BRRESTORE parameters in the initialization profile init<DBSID>.sap, because BRTOOLS uses these when it calls BRRESTORE.

·        Make sure you have the correct volumes for the verify.

Procedure

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       1.      Start BRGUI or BRTOOLS.

       2.      Choose Backup and database copy  → Verification of database backup.

       3.      Select the BRBACKUP database backup that you want to verify.

       4.      Set the required options:

Menu Entry	Equivalent BRRESTORE Command Option
BRRESTORE profile (profile)	-p|-profile
BRBACKUP backup run (backup)	-b|-backup|b1|backup1
Verification device type (device)	-d|-device
BACKINT/ Mount profile (parfile)	-r|-parfile
Database user /password (user)	-u|-user
Use DBVERIFY (use_dbv)	-w|-verify
Files for verification (mode)	-m|-mode
Confirmation mode (confirm)	-c|-confirm
Query mode (query)	-q|-query
Compression mode (compress)	-k|-compress
Parallel execution (execute)	-e|-execute
Additional output (output)	-o|-output
Message language (language)	-l|-language
BRRESTORE command line (command)	This shows you the BRRESTORE -b -w command that is to be executed using the current settings.

       5.      To start the verification with the selected options, choose Continue.

       6.      Check the results in the BRRESTORE logs.

¡        The summary log rest<DBSID>.log displays the return code.

¡        The detail log r<encoded timestamp>.<ext> displays progress.

For more information on how to view the logs, see Showing Logs with BR*Tools.