Backing up SAP data

Plan a daily backup strategy with scheduled and automated backups for the system.

About this task

Follow the tasks to put the backup strategy in place. Use the samples to help you for your operating system.

Schedule automated backup tasks
Scheduling and automating backup and archive operations helps to ensure that data is backed up regularly at a specified time. Products that are used to schedule backup operations can be used to automate these operations.
Windows scheduling example
An example of a batch file schedule is shown.
Backups in a nonpartitioned database environment
The following examples show how you can start DB2® database or table space backups from the command line by using DB2 CLP.
Use DB2 single system view for backup
DB2 Version 9.5 and later provides the single system view (SSV) function, which allows backing up multiple database partitions immediately.
Creating multiple log file copies
Backing up multiple copies of a log file in a single archive operation helps protect against this data in the event of a storage hardware failure or disaster recovery situation. These copies can be on different physical IBM Spectrum Protect™ volumes or on different IBM Spectrum Protect servers.
Schedule batch sample
Full offline backup batch file sample
Full offline backup shell script sample
Segment large backup objects