Cold backup

[Former Member]

Hi

We have done cold backup of our production server, the procedure that we have followed is that :-

1) first we have stop the SAP Server with service manager on Windows NT 4.0

2) then we have stop the oracle server 8.0.6 with svrgmr30 command.

3) Then phisically copied the drives containing sapdata,USR folder etc.Copied hole drives on other ID hard disk via cross connection of pc.

--> I want to now that is it called cold backup ? or

--> We have to use the br*tools etc ?

--> Can we recover the hole system from that Hard Disk ?.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sandeep

In my opinion, the backup you have taken is more appropriately called a file system backup or the file system dump. This would not be too helpful in restoration in case of Windows as teh applications needs to be installed back again under a crash ( except if you have a Solaris OS).

A cold backup would be taking abackup of the databse in a database shutdown state. It is considered as a very safe backup as inconsistancy chances are near to nil as no user operations are going on at that time.

You can schedule a cold backup or more appropriately called an offline backup from SAP itself through DB13 transaction which will indirectly call the br* tools. The same will itself shutdown the databse, back it up on disk and restart it back.

Hope the answer helped you in some manner.

Regards

Lokesh Gupta

[MPGraziano · Accepted solution]

We have recently migrated to SQL Server and Upgraded to ECC 6.0 (from 4.6C)

DB13 tools , do you have documentation regarding what is required for configuration settings etc... to set up the backup you described.

Our current strategy is to use third party backup tool (commvault) to do backups which are recently failing

Please advise

[Former Member]

Hi Sandeep,

you can call it a cold backup as you stop the services during the backup.

It is better for you if you could use standard program/utility such as brtools to take the backup as you can take the backup on physical disk using brtools instead of just copy & paste, this is very helpfull in case you want to restore the backup on your system.

Regards,

Rajesh