Executables
The programs that BR*Tools call must be accessible from everywhere. Therefore, the paths of the following executables must be set in the PATH
environment variable.
SAP Programs
BRBACKUP.EXE, BRARCHIVE.EXE, BRRESTORE.EXE, BRRECOVER.EXE, BRCONNECT.EXE, BRSPACE.EXE, BRTOOLS.EXE
Interface Program for External Backup Utility
BACKINT.EXE
Operating System Programs
CPIO.EXE
(MKS Tools), DD.EXE
(MKS-Tools), MT.EXE
(MKS Tools), MKSZIP.EXE
(MKS Tools, compression), UNCOMPRESS.EXE
(MKS Tools, decompression)
So far, MKSZIP.EXE
and UNCOMPRESS.EXE
are only used by BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE and BRRESTORE.
The mkzip
command is required if you want BRBACKUP or BRARCHIVE to save files with software compression (option -k yes
).
This program is not used anymore to estimate the compression rate of tape devices with hardware compression (option -k only
). Instead, BRTOOLS is called, which uses the SAP compression library.
Note
These programs are no longer delivered by SAP. However, you can still purchase them from the manufacturer, MKS inc.