Summary

• When a business system is down, it can cost an organization millions of dollars.

• Developing and implementing an effective backup strategy is very important.

• The BRBACKUP tool helps to back up the database.

• A 28-day tape backup cycle is recommended.

• BRBACKUP can back up the data to disk or tape.

• BRBACKUP reads the BRTOOLS initialization file; therefore, the file needs to be customized as per the needs of your organization.

• The name of the configuration file is init<SID>.sap.

• BRRESTORE helps to restore the database.

• BRRECOVER helps to restore and recover the database.

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