Restoring the brbackup summary log with brrestore

[benoit-schmid]

Good morning,

I am doing restorations' tests on an empty/restore machine.

I have tested restorations with backint commands. It works find.

Now, I would like to test restorations with brrestore.

How can I restore the brbackup summary file with brrestore?

If I run the following command, it says that I need this file to restore it.

As w say in french, it is the snakes that bites its tail 🙂

brrestore -b last -m /oracle/XXX/18/sapbackup/backPRD.log -p /usr/local/sap/tsm-xxx-refresh/initRestoreXXX.sap
BR0401I BRRESTORE 7.40 (37)
BR0405I Start of file restore: rfbswnxg.rsb 2019-08-06 10:58:08
BR0484I BRRESTORE log file: /oracle/XXX/18/sapbackup/rfbswnxg.rsb
BR0252E Function fopen() failed for '/oracle/XXX/18/sapbackup/backXXX.log' at location last_back_get-2
BR0253E errno 2: No such file or directory
BR0121E Processing of log file /oracle/XXX/18/sapbackup/backXXX.log failed

BR0406I End of file restore: rfbswnxg.rsb 2019-08-06 10:58:08
BR0280I BRRESTORE time stamp: 2019-08-06 10:58:08
BR0404I BRRESTORE terminated with errors

Have a nice day.

[shabeer · Accepted solution]

Follow this SAP note to restore brbackup summary log: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/96848

[benoit-schmid · Accepted solution]

Good afternoon,

From the note you have provided, it is possible to restore this files with the -b2 options.

I have derived the following command that worked:

brrestore -p initRestoreXXX.sap -b2 "#NULL" -m /oracle/XXX/sapbackup/backXXX.log

Have a nice day.

[shabeer]

Do you have required permission and ownership for the folders oracle and sapbackup?

[benoit-schmid]

Good morning,

Yes this directory belongs to orasid.

If you look carefully in the error, you can see that it needs to open the summary log in order to do a restoration.

As it has not been restored yet, it is not available.

Regards,

[Matt_Fraser]

Hi Shabeer,

I converted your comment to an answer so as to better facilitate the back-and-forth discussion ensuing between you and Benoit.

Best regards,
Matt Fraser
SAP Community Moderator

[Matt_Fraser]

Good morning Benoit,

I converted your response to Shabeer into a comment under his response, as this is the easiest way to generate a notification to him that you replied. Otherwise, it becomes necessary to use "@-mentions" in the text of your response to generate the notification.

Best regards,
Matt Fraser
SAP Community Moderator

[shabeer]

Thank you Matt.