System Copy Methods

Hello All,
I need to perform system copy.I know the procedure from sapinst.But I have one doubt While doing the database Instance Installation we have 2 Methods:
1.Standard System Copy/Migration.
2. Homogenous System copy(MS Sql server specific:Dettach/Attach or Backup/Restore)
Which one I Need to select for Target system DB Installation??I am using win 2003/ms sql server 2005.Performing system copy of ecc 6.0.

Das,
Here is the details doc for system copy
System Copy and Migration
Thanks,
Sreeni.

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I am in process of doing system copy from production to Quality.
OS: Linux
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Hello Experts,
I have a question around system copy method for a dual stack ECC6 EHP2 system.
We are planning to take full file system backup of this entire ECC6 EHP2 dual stack system and throw it on a completely new hardware with new host name but same SID. We are also planning to do a host renaming in instance profiles and re-building the control files in target system after we finish the file system restore.
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We will do a system copy for BPC on HANA from DEV to QAS (system installation with system copy method), are there any special considerations about the copy.
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Dear support,
We have recently upgraded to ECC 6.0 system and we have been still doing system copy by using backup and restore method. I know its wrong.
which involves below steps , this old methos works fine for ABAP engine and evreything looks ok.But java engine will not work.
So we need to use SAPINST method as described in note 785848 and system copy guide available on OSS. But i am really not able to understand sequence
for tasks to be carried out in this SAPINST method.
Can anybody list few sequence along with step by step procedure as i mentioned below for old system copy procedure.
Is it really difficult to make that for SAPINST as everybody says refer to standard guide and note ?
Anybody if possible can make the same way as i did below , i think it would rather be small as far as my understanding after reading those docs.
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e. exit;
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g. Copy the text from CREATE CONTROLFILE until the ( and paste it in to any new .sql or controlfile.sql file.
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j. Edit the reuse database command with the set database command
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a. Change all the source <SID> to target <SID>.
b. Only don't change the backup volume name it must be target system <SID>.
c. Copy the above aft file name line from the source back<SID>.log to target<SID>.log file.
5. Shutdown the target server instance.
6. From this onwards all the command on the target system only.
a. Login as <SID>adm
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d. select B (Full restore and recovery)
e. select A (Select backup of type)
f. Select the offline backup which you want to restore.
g. It will take some time to restore.
h. Once the database is restored login as <SID>adm and run the
i. svrmgrl
j. connect internal;
k. startup nomount (if the database is already mounted shutdown it using the shutdown command)
l. run the following command
m. @controlfile.sql (file name of the control file contains the CREATE CONTROLFILE statement)
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I am really looking forward to see anybody take some time out to prepare this kind of step by step procedure.
It would be of greate help for all of us for performing system copy with sapinst method.
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AjitR

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Target system
Yes you need to take the back up file system and delete all the contents of the directory.
Yes it can be considered as fresh system installation but copy of source system.
Yes the process follows after you giving the export directory path .
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I want to make homogeneous system copy ( NW7 ) of ECC6 from PRD to make a QA system on HPUX/Oracle environment. I am wondering which of the following method is better way to go
System copy with the help of sapinst
or
Database specific method
What are the steps of each method?
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Hi Al,
Using sapinst is the supported method by SAP but it takes much longer as you'll need to export/import the data and doing this affects availability of your PRD system. Most companies perform DB backup/restore as it is much quicker and does not require an outage of your PRD system (if you have online backups). Different databases have different tools for this operations. Since it only a QA system, I would suggest you do a DB backup/restore.
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System Copy of our Production Server using orabrcopy method.

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We are planning to do a System Copy of our Production Server using orabrcopy method.
But as the Production Server Java Version is below 1.4.1, Orabrcopy could not be executed.
As per the planned downtime of the Production Server, we have copied all the database offline. ( say 9th of August)
but we could not create the control , trace, init<sid>.ora files using ORABRCOPY.. during offline database copy.
Now the system is up and running.. We havent created the files yet.
I have 2 questions..
1. Is there any other method so that we can create the control , trace, and init<sid>.ora files.
2. If we create the control trace files now ( 13th of August ) can we use the offline backup that we took on (9th of August) to perform a System Copy..
Need your addvice..
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Markus

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I would like to do a system copy to transfer the database instance to another host.
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Hi all,
I have completed my system copy of R3 ECC 6.0 and BI7 system to another machines for testing purpose using sapinst method.
Basically i have used installation master DVD and went for option Additional software life cycle _ system copy -- Source system - Based on abap + java -- Export
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Hi Oscar,
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I have done a system copy of the production portal to a sandpit system before. The system copy export import method works very well, and is easy. For my portal, the whole procedure took me less than 6 hours.
1. Go to this page: System Copy and Migration
2. See the videos "Demo: How to Perform a System Copy Export" and "Demo: How to Perform a System Copy Import".
This should give you the basic idea.
I did a systemcopy using sapinst. If I remember right, this is the steps I performed:
1. On target host, Installed a new Central services.
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trc file: "dev_w2", trc level: 1, release: "620"
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B Library 'C:\usr\sap\DV1\SYS\exe\run\dbmssslib.dll' loaded
B Version of 'C:\usr\sap\DV1\SYS\exe\run\dbmssslib.dll' is "620.02", patchlevel (0.235)
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M relno 6200
M patchlevel 0
M patchno 251
M intno 20020600
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I MtxInit: -2 0 0
X
X Tue Jun 02 20:02:44 2009
X EmInit: MmSetImplementation( 2 ).
X <ES> client 2 initializing ....
X Using implementation std
M <EsNT> Memory Reset enabled as NT default
X ES initialized.
M
M Tue Jun 02 20:02:45 2009
M calling db_connect ...
C SQLOLEDB Provider Release:08.10.3959
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C Using shared procedure name cache initialized by another process.
C Thank You for using the SLOLEDB-interface
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C Using dynamic link library 'C:\usr\sap\DV1\SYS\exe\run\dbmssslib.dll'
C dbmssslib.dll patch info
C patchlevel 0
C patchno 235
C patchcomment MSSQL: STRING_BAD_REF on NULL-lob-access (412757)
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B Wp Hdl ConName ConId ConState TX PRM RCT Date Time DBHost
B 000 000 R/3 000000000 ACTIVE NO YES NO 20090602 200245 ADAPSAP47
C The IRow interface is supported by this OLEDB provider
C ParamStmtExec: line 22924. hr: 0x80040e37 Invalid object name 'SVERS'.
C HandleOledbError [ParamStmtExec,line 22924]: Error/Message: (err 208, sev 16), Invalid object name 'SVERS'.
C ParamStmtExec failed. HR 80040e37 DBSL retcode 103. stmt: [SELECT VERSION AS c FROM SVERS ]
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C DbSlRead - Error 103 (dbcode 208) on fetch
C DbSlRead - <##Y2ADAPSAP4dv100000014520000000001200245>
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M ***LOG R19=> tskh_init, db_connect ( DB-Connect 004096) [thxxhead.c 1098]
M in_ThErrHandle: 1
M *** ERROR => tskh_init: db_connect (step 1, th_errno 13, action 3, level 1) [thxxhead.c 8277]
M
M Info for wp 2
M
M stat = 4
M reqtype = 1
M act_reqtype = -1
M tid = -1
M mode = 255
M len = -1
M rq_id = -1
M rq_source = 255
M last_tid = 0
M last_mode = 0
M rfc_req = 0
M report = > <
M action = 0
M tab_name = > <
M
M *****************************************************************************
M *
M * LOCATION SAP-Server adapsap47_DV1_00 on host adapsap47 (wp 2)
M * ERROR tskh_init: db_connect
M *
M * TIME Tue Jun 02 20:02:45 2009
M * RELEASE 620
M * COMPONENT Taskhandler
M * VERSION 1
M * RC 13
M * MODULE thxxhead.c
M * LINE 8408
M * COUNTER 1
M *
M *****************************************************************************
M
M Entering TH_CALLHOOKS
M ThCallHooks: call hook >SAP-Trace buffer write< for event BEFORE_DUMP
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThrSaveSPAFields< for event BEFORE_DUMP
M *** ERROR => ThrSaveSPAFields: no valid thr_wpadm [thxxrun1.c 672]
M *** ERROR => ThCallHooks: event handler ThrSaveSPAFields for event BEFORE_DUMP failed [thxxtool3.c 235]
M Entering ThSetStatError
M Entering ThReadDetachMode
M call ThrShutDown (1)...
M ***LOG Q02=> wp_halt, WPStop (Workproc 2 1452) [dpnttool.c 345]
>>
Regards,
Srinivas

> The Languages(Chinese,Japanese,Korean) Installed on the source system(Non- Unicode) are not reflecting in the target system(Non- Unicode) after Homogeneous system copy.
Can you tell us what you mean with "not reflecting"? All the content is in the database so if you copied that, it's definitely there.
> Can you please guide whether we have to do Unicode conversion for this /Is their any way for activating the languages. I Executed the report RSCPINST and tried to activate the languages after doing stimulation and copying zcsa/installed_languages =13CDEFIJLMNOPQRSTVZ to the instance profile.
...and you did a restart of the instance after you changed that parameter?
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Unable to log in to portal after system copy

Good day
I have copied my production portal system to a test system. I am using an ECC Abap system as my user store. The portal start successfully and I am able to access the Visual administrator.
I am however unable to log on to the portal. The error I get is "User authentication error".
Below is an extract from the security log:
#1.5#0011259C05FB0054000002F500001B9800043F56F6157AED#1195542635224#/System/Security/Authentication#sap.com/irj#com.sap.engine.services.security.authentication.logincontext#Guest#0##sapsep.sap.lonmin_SEP_32623050#Guest#af93b280973711dc980a0011259c05fb#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_35##0#0#Error#1#com.sap.engine.services.security.authentication.logincontext#Plain###LOGIN.FAILED
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Login Module                                                            Flag        Initialize Login      Commit     Abort      Details
com.sap.security.core.server.jaas.EvaluateTicketLoginModule             SUFFICIENT ok          false      false      true
com.sap.security.core.server.jaas.CreateTicketLoginModule               SUFFICIENT ok          false      false      true
com.sap.engine.services.security.server.jaas.BasicPasswordLoginModule   REQUISITE   ok          true       true       true
com.sap.security.core.server.jaas.CreateTicketLoginModule               REQUISITE   ok          true       exception true       null#
#1.5#0011259C05FB0054000002F700001B9800043F56F61580BC#1195542635240#/System/Security/Audit#sap.com/irj#com.sap.security.core.util.SecurityAudit#Guest#0##sapsep.sap.lonmin_SEP_32623050#Guest#af93b280973711dc980a0011259c05fb#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_35##0#0#Warning#1#com.sap.security.core.util.SecurityAudit#Plain###Guest     | LOGIN.ERROR     | null     |      | Login Method=[default], UserID=[oostw], IP Address=[172.27.2.137], Reason=[Access Denied.]#
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Wilhelm

Hello!
It looks like your system is configured for ticket authentication. As you did a system copy the SSO-ticket might not be working anymore. If this is the case you need fix the SSO or you need to re-configure your Portal (at least temporarily) to allow other authentication methods (like basic password authentication).
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