New Features in SAP Release 6.10

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:
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