BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, and BRCONNECT (SAP Library - SAP Database Guide: Oracle (BC-DB-ORA-DBA))

BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, and BRCONNECT

Use

SAP provides the tools BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, and BRCONNECT to protect the data in your Oracle database. Operating system programs – such as "dd", "cpio", or "tar" used directly on UNIX – are too limited and so not suitable for this task.

Integration

The tools are integrated with SAPDBA, which:

Calls BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, and BRRESTORE
Performs automatic database restore and recovery
Administers the redo logs

The tools are available for the operating systems UNIX and Windows NT.

The tools have their own utility tool, BRCONNECT and BRTOOLS.

The following graphic shows the integration of the backup and restore tools:

Features

Common Features of BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE

Features common to both BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE

BRBACKUP

Backup of data files, control files, and online redo log files of the database

BRARCHIVE

Archiving of offline redo log files

BRRESTORE

Restore of data files, control files, online redo log files, and offline redo log files

BRCONNECT

Database administration tasks such as statistics update, check database system, and adapt next extents. BRCONNECT also functions as a utility tool in a similar way to BRTOOLS.