There are the following new features in SAP Release 6.10:
· BRARCHIVE support for backup of offline redo log files with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
This enables you to develop a comprehensive strategy for database files and offline redo log files. You can also take advantage of internal block consistency checking by RMAN for offline redo log files.
· Software compression for backups on remote disk
This helps to reduce the network traffic load required for backups. For more information, see backup_dev_type.
· Support of util_file_online logic for offline backups
This enables you to fully implement split mirror and snapshot scenarios in BACKINT.
· New user interface for BRCONNECT
The main new functions are:
¡ Clean up old logs and trace files
For more information about the new commands, see Command Options for BRCONNECT.
· SAPDBA support for the following new features:
¡ Creation and extension of locally managed (that is, "bitmap") tablespaces and reorganization of locally managed tablespaces.
¡ Veritas Quick I/O to administer files from file systems as if they were raw devices