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Requirements for Backing Up SAP Data to Data Mover Servers

Arcserve Backup lets you back up SAP data to data mover servers. Data Mover servers are UNIX or Linux based computers that are configured with locally accessible disks or shared tape libraries. Using this approach to back up SAP data helps improve the overall performance of your backups.

To back up data to data mover servers, verify the following configurations are complete:

• Verify that the Enterprise Option for SAP R/3 for Oracle is installed on the node containing SAP data.
• Verify that the UNIX and Linux Data Mover component is installed on the node where you installed the Enterprise Option for SAP R/3 for Oracle.

  Note: The first time you install the option on a data mover server, the installation script asks you if you want to back up SAP data to the data mover server. If you want to back up data to the data mover server, specify the y option.

• Verify that the data mover server is registered to a Arcserve Backup primary server.

  Note: For information about how to register data mover servers with the primary server, see the UNIX and Linux Data Mover Guide.

After all configurations are complete, Arcserve Backup will always perform your SAP data backup and restore operations via the data mover server.

Note: If the option is installed and configured to back up SAP data to data mover servers, however, the current configuration is not successfully backing up data to the data mover servers, you can reconfigure the option using a script file named pfilesetup. The pfilesteup script file is stored in the option's home directory.