BR*Tools for Oracle DBA

Use

SAP provides the tools BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRRECOVER, BRSPACE, BRCONNECT, and BRTOOLS to manage and protect the data in your Oracle database.

This section describes how to perform Oracle DBA with BR*Tools. For more information on how to work out an approach to Oracle DBA, see Approach to Oracle DBA .

For more information on other tools, including the Oracle tool SQL*Plus, see Other Tools for Oracle DBA.


Although SAPDBA 6.20 for Oracle is still available for Oracle 9i, it is no longer being developed. Therefore, we strongly recommend you to use the BR*Tools instead.

Integration

The BR*Tools are :

Integrated with BRTOOLS, which is the character-based interface that calls BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRRECOVER, BRSPACE, and BRCONNECT

· Available for the operating systems UNIX and Microsoft Windows


Distinguish between the following:

BR*Tools is the program package containing BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRRECOVER, BRSPACE, BRCONNECT, and BRTOOLS.

BRTOOLS is the program that displays the menus from which the other BR programs are called.

As an example, the following graphic shows the integration of the backup, restore, and recovery tools:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

Prerequisites

The BR*Tools are installed automatically on the database server in the directory /usr/sap//SYS/exe/run.

We classify BR*Tools as functional, help, batch, and interactive tools:

Tool Types for BR*Tools

Type

Tool

Description

Functional

BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRRECOVER, BRSPACE, and BRCONNECT

Perform actions directly on database files or objects

Help

BRTOOLS and BRCONNECT

BRTOOLS is the menu program that can call all other functional tools interactively

BRTOOLS and BRCONNECT are also called internally:

BRTOOLS is called by BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, and BRRESTORE for backup, restore, and verification.

BRCONNECT is called by BRBACKUP to monitor the database during a backup

Batch

BRBACKUP, BRARCHIVE, BRRESTORE, BRCONNECT

Only run on their own in batch, without menus.

You can call them interactively with BRTOOLS.

Interactive

BRSPACE, BRRECOVER, BRTOOLS

Run interactively with their own menus.

BRSPACE and BRRECOVER can also run in batch mode.


There is a menu in BRCONNECT to change the database password in GUI mode.

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