Unable to backup from SAP to Networker Jukebox

[blodwyn]

We are running SAP R/3 4.6C and currently backup to the jukebox via UNIX but want to use the SAP brbackup facility instead.

We have managed to amend the init<SID.sap file to successfully initialise a tape via sapdba, but when it unmounts the tape it does so with an IO error message.

When attempting to use this initialised tape for a backup, the tape is ejected with the error message &quot;Tape label error:not enough space&quot;

We have experimented with block size configurations but have not yet hit on the right answer.

Has anybody any experience or advice in this field?

We are using DLT8000.


Regards

 

[esserc]

What version of Networker are you using.And what version of the SAP Module?

 

[esserc]

More questions... What database and what version? and what OS and Version?

 

[Barks]

If you are using backint which is the SAP application module, then you don't initialize tapes from sapdba. You need to set up the init<SID>.utl file with parameter backup_dev_type = util_file. You will also need to set up the init<SID>.utl file to use a specific pool and group. You then label tapes through Networker just as you would with UNIX backups.
Hope this helps,
Kent

 

[blodwyn]

Thanks for your help guys.

We are using version 6.0.1 of Networker on
Solaris/Oracle(32) 8.1.6.0.0. We have not installed a SAP module (£££), wishing to use brbackup directly.

&quot;Apparently&quot; this shuld be possible, and with the introduction of backup_dev_types pipe_box & tape_box it can be carried out without using backint(?)

We have the latest version of brbackup etc.

Any ideas?

 

[esserc]

I wasn't aware that there was any way to do it without the module. Good luck.