Offsite Backup Server

I have got a client who wants to set up an offsite backup server for SAP B1. I would to know how to do it. May you please help.

Hello,
Accordingly to [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152531(SQL.90).aspx|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152531(SQL.90).aspx] there are 3 possible scenarios in order to implement Replication using MSSQL Server:
1. Transactional Replication
2. Merge Replication and
3. Snapshot Replication
I am afraid that I have to say that nothing of the above is supported as described in note [942923|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMSZ3PTU4ODAwMDAr)/bc/bsp/spn/smb_searchnotes/smb_index.htm]
I think it has to do with the internal links SAP Business One uses within a DB, which might get destroyed when using replication functionality of MSSQL Server.
Kind regards
Mario Schoenberg
Senior Support Consultant
SAP Business One Forums Team

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Currently a level 1 incremental backup is done at 10:00PM every night to the array (this takes approximately 1 hour to be completed). I am interested in doing a full hot offsite backup of the DB to a disk on another server.
Can anyone tell me how would I be able to do this using RMAN and/or backing locally and then FTP'ing the backup to a remote sever.
Can anyone also confirm if the calculation for the size of the DB is accurate?
( I did the calculations based on what I saw at this site and this site)
I would like to do this in preperation for some firmware upgrade that our Sun support would like to do on the array, I would like to implement a script (or maybe use RMAN) to do a nightly offsite backup. I would still need to do the DB backup to the array...but what files do I copy off the array (to the remote server) for an offsite backup of the DB.
I would really appreciate any help.
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Thanks for the help, I took a look at the script. Suppose however I didn't/couldn't do any modification of the Oracle RMAN settings (without voiding my support contract). Could I simply copy the necessary DB files to a remote server, would I be able to do a restore (if necessary) from those copied files?
Like I have pointed out before, currently an incremental level 1 backup (to the array) is done nightly at 10 (and it takes approximately 1 hour)
[....I am also working on updating the support contract ]

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Sorry, but I do not know what backup utilities are good on Windows.
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