Backup Medium (Backint for SAP DB) 

If you want to perform backups or restores with the external backup tool Backint for SAP DB, you must define the appropriate backup media with the Database Manager.

Procedure

To create the backup medium, follow the procedure described in the Database Manger documentation.

The media name must begin with the character string BACK.

Definition of a pipe as a medium for an incremental data backup with a DBMCLI command (Windows):

dbmcli -d <database_name> -u <user_id>,<password> medium_put BACK123 \\.\pipe\Example pipe pages

The backup medium must be a pipe and must not have any capacity limits.

The name of the pipe must be specified as an absolute path. The pipes used must not exist.

You can perform parallel backups using multiple pipes.

See also:

Configuration of Backint for SAP DB Connections