BRTools Backup

Question

Hi,
Currently I am backing up my AIX Oracle DB 11g for system refresh.
These are the steps that I have done so far,
*Few notations that I use are SSID (SourceSID) TSID (TargetSID)
I also taking backup to a shared drive, connected to AIX as CIFS connection.
     in the CIFS connection this is the pattern that I followed.
          shared_drive/Backup        ---> for backup_root_dir & stage_root_dir
          shared_drive/Redologs      ---> for archive_copy_dir & archive_stage_dir
The following steps I am doing in the Source system (which I am taking the backup from)
1) create control file (alter database backup controlfile to TRACE as '/tmp/SSID.ctrl' ; )
2) copy out control file to pc
3) rename system name to TSID , change the line:
CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE ‘SSID’ NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG;
as follow
CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE SET DATABASE ‘TSID’ RESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG;
4) backup and replace initSID.sap in source system to use share drive as backup by changing following parameters:
backup_type = offline
backup_dev_type = disk
backup_root_dir = Create Backup Folder and provide their path like   "shared_drive/Backup"
stage_root_dir = Copy Same Path which you have given to back_root_dir
archive_copy_dir = Create Redologs Folder & Provide their path like  "shared_drive/Redologs"
archive_stage_dir = Copy Same Path which you have given to archive_copy_dir
5) use brtools to backup source database
6) backup and replace initSID.sap in target system to use share drive as restore by changing folllowing parameters:
backup_type = offline
backup_dev_type = disk
backup_root_dir = Create Backup Folder and provide their path like   "shared_drive/Backup"
stage_root_dir = Copy Same Path which you have given to back_root_dir
archive_copy_dir = Create Redologs Folder & Provide their path like  "shared_drive/Redologs"
archive_stage_dir = Copy Same Path which you have given to archive_copy_dir
So in the above steps a few questions,
In step 3 should I change the whole document from SSID to TSID? I mean to say all the files that are pointing to SSID should be changed to TSID or BRTools will take care of that?
Also the backup is going to take 3days?? So does the same steps apply if I am going to do for online backup?

Answer 1

Hi Guys,
since it was the weekend I got the backup started and running.
But it failed at 40% with this
0005 Error during processing
Some text from the .afd file
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.20.57
BR0063I 54 of 106 files processed - 122033.682 of 327774.088 MB done
BR0204I Percentage done: 37.23%, estimated end time: 2014-08-17 08:30
BR0001I *******************_______________________________
BR0202I Saving /oracle/ED6/sapdata4/sr3_47/sr3.data47
BR0203I to /sapmnt_systemrefresh/Backup/beonjbzj/sr3.data47 ...
#FILE..... /oracle/ED6/sapdata1/sr3_9/sr3.data9
#SAVED.... /sapmnt_systemrefresh/Backup/beonjbzj/sr3.data9  #5/11
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.40.36
BR0063I 55 of 106 files processed - 125733.689 of 327774.088 MB done
BR0204I Percentage done: 38.36%, estimated end time: 2014-08-17 08:16
BR0001I *******************_______________________________
#FILE..... /oracle/ED6/sapdata4/sr3_47/sr3.data47
#SAVED.... /sapmnt_systemrefresh/Backup/beonjbzj/sr3.data47  #7/16
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.04
BR0063I 56 of 106 files processed - 128373.697 of 327774.088 MB done
BR0204I Percentage done: 39.17%, estimated end time: 2014-08-17 07:37
BR0001I ********************______________________________
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.06
BR0304I Starting and opening database instance ED6 ...
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.19
BR0305I Start and open of database instance ED6 successful
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.21
BR0307I Shutting down database instance ED6 ...
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.27
BR0308I Shutdown of database instance ED6 successful
BR0056I End of database backup: beonjbzj.afd 2014-08-16 09.43.04
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2014-08-16 09.43.27
BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
Where do I go and see what exactly is the error?