Db13 and init<SID>.sap confusion

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

Ours is a Production environment, where i am facing problems with scheduling backups through DB13.

We are using third party backup tool i.e. TIVOLI so we have customized initIRP.sap file (SID=IRP).

1. Since we have to customize initIRP.sap file according to client requirements, we created two new files initIRPdaily.sap(backup from Mon to Fri) and initIRPweekly.sap (for backup on Sat and Sunds)

2. But when i am scheduling backups from DB13, its going to default file that it initIRP.sap rather i want it to read initIRPdaily.sap or initIRPweekly.sap.

Where can i make changes so that DB13 reads initIRPdaily.sap from Mon to Fri & reads initIRPweekly.sap only on Saturday Sunday.

I am sure its possible and hope mentors over here would suggest me the right way

Your suggestions would be highly appreciated...

Thanks

Ayush

[Former Member]

For this you need to make sure that your DB13 is running properly and also ensure that if you are using thridy party Tool like TIVOLI, you need to maintain two parameters like util_param. These paramters should be maintained properly and preferably ask Tivoli person to give the exact paramter details.

Once this init<sid>.sap is configured properly with above parameters then when you try taking a backup firstly through Brtools command level using your customized init<sid>.sap (in our case its initIRPdaily.sap & initIRPweekly.sap) and mention theese init file names in the brbackup command options, the backup should run successfully, and once Brtools work fine, then you can try scheduling backups from DB13.

[former_member204746]

easy:

delete your job in DB13, recreate the backup from scratch, it will ask you which profile file to use. enter initIRPweekly.sap when asked.

[Former Member]

Hi Ayush,

It is not advisable to change the default settings of SAP,as doing the same may affect

other functionalities of SAP.

Alternatively you may overwite initSID.sap file with initSIDdaily.sap

and initSAPweekly.sap as per your requirement.

Regards

Aditya