Overview

Data Protection for SAP and IBM Storage Protect™ provide a reliable, high performance, and production-oriented solution that enables back up and restore of SAP systems.

Data Protection for SAP is integrated with SAP backup and recovery utilities BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, and BRRECOVER, and applies SAP backup and recovery procedures. Data Protection for SAP is optimized for SAP databases and therefore provides efficient management of large data volumes.

As demonstrated in this graphic, SAP backup-and-recovery utilities center on database objects where more than 90 percent of the data is on an SAP database server. As a result, Data Protection for SAP backs up and restores data files, control files, and online or offline redo logs.

Other files, such as SAP and Oracle executable files, can be backed up using the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client. This action is important for disaster recovery purposes, as all SAP and Oracle executable files must be available before you use Data Protection for SAP to restore and recover the database.