Verifying the installation

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The following tasks are part of the product configuration. The verification tasks for initial and upgrade installations need to be met.

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Make sure that the following considerations are met before verifying the installation.
  • The SAP backup profile is configured properly. This profile can be found on UNIX™ or Linux™ systems in the path $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and on Windows™ systems in the path %ORACLE_HOME%\database.
    This configuration refers to the following keywords within that profile:
    backup_type
    Identifies the default type of the database backup. This parameter is used only by BRBACKUP. The default is offline.
    backup_dev_type
    Determines the backup medium that is used (default is tape). To use the backint interface, this parameter must be set either to util_file or util_file_online. For RMAN, this parameter is set to rman_util.
    util_par_file
    This parameter specifies the location of the parameter file. This file is required to do a backup operation with an external backup program.
    rman_parms
    When backup_dev_type is set to rman_util, this parameter defines various parameters that are required for RMAN operations.
    Available values for the backup_dev_type and backup_type keywords.
    Table 1. SAP backup profile parameter combinations
    Operation backup_dev_type backup_type
    Offline backup util_file offline
    Online backup util_file online
    Online backup with individual table space locking util_file_online online
    Online backup through RMAN rman_util online
    The SAP backup profile parameter must be set or changed as follows to run online backups with individual table space that lock with the data protection software: 
    backup_type      = online
backup_dev_type  = util_file_online
util_par_file = ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initSID.utl
Start the verification for initial and upgrade installations with a table space backup with BR*Tools. Then, start a full online or offline backup with BRBACKUP: 
brbackup -c -t online  
brbackup -c -t offline
A complete restore or recovery of the entire SAP database must be run with BR*Tools. However, a complete offline backup with BRBACKUP must be done first. For backup tests, the BR*Tools utilities BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE must be used. For restore or recovery test, only BRRECOVER must be used.