Backup Medium (ADSM/TSM) (SAP Library - External Backup Tools: SAP DB 7.2 and 7.3)

Backup Medium (ADSM/TSM)

Use

If you want to perform backups or restores with the external backup tool ADSM/TSM, you must define the appropriate backup media with the Database Manager.

Procedure

To create the backup medium, follow the procedure described in the Database Manger documentation.

Database Manager GUI: SAP DB 7.3, Section Backup ® Managing the Backup Media

Database Manager CLI: SAP DB 7.3, Section Calling the Database Manager CLI ® DBM Server Command ® Backing Up and Recovering Database Instances ® Commands for Backup Media

The media name must begin with the character string ADSM.

Example

Definition of a pipe as a medium for an incremental data backup with a DBMCLI command (Windows NT):

dbmcli -d <database_name> -u <userid>,<password> medium_put ADSM123 \\.\pipe\EXAMPLE pipe pages

The backup medium must be a pipe and must not have any capacity limits.

The pipes used must not exist. Specify the absolute name of a pipe.

Windows NT: Pipe names must be in the following form: \\.\pipe\<pipe_name>

UNIX: There are no particular naming conventions to follow for pipe names.

Parallel backups are not currently possible.