• SnapManager for SAP docs
  • Release notes
  • Installation and Setup for UNIX for Clustered Data ONTAP
    • Product overview
      • SnapManager architecture
    • Deployment workflow
    • Prepare for deployment
      • SnapManager licensing
      • Supported configurations
      • Supported storage types
      • UNIX host requirements
    • Configure databases
      • Configure the target database
      • Create an Oracle database user for the target database
      • Create the repository database instance
      • Create an Oracle user for the repository database instance
      • Verify the Oracle listener configuration
    • Install SnapManager
      • Integrate with SAP BR* Tools
    • Set up SnapManager
      • Start the SnapManager server
      • Access the SnapManager user interface
      • Configure the SnapManager repository
    • Preparing storage systems for SnapMirror and SnapVault replication
      • Understanding the differences between SnapMirror and SnapVault
      • Prepare storage systems for SnapMirror replication
      • Prepare storage systems for SnapVault replication
    • Backing up and verifying your databases
      • SnapManager backup overview
      • Defining a backup strategy
      • Create a profile for your database
      • Back up your database
      • Verify database backups
      • Schedule recurring backups
    • Uninstall the software from a UNIX host
    • Upgrading SnapManager
      • Preparing to upgrade SnapManager
      • Upgrade the SnapManager hosts
      • Post-upgrade tasks
        • Update the existing repository
        • Modify the backup retention class
        • Restore process types
      • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
        • Prerequisites for performing rolling upgrades
        • Perform rolling upgrade on a single host or multiple hosts
        • What a rollback is
          • Limitations for performing a rollback
          • Prerequisites for performing a rollback
          • Perform a rollback on a single host or multiple hosts
          • Post rollback tasks
    • Where to go next
  • Installation and Setup for UNIX for 7-mode
    • Product overview
      • SnapManager architecture
    • Deployment workflow
    • Prepare for deployment
      • SnapManager licensing
      • Supported configurations
      • Supported storage types
      • UNIX host requirements
    • Configure databases
      • Configure the target database
      • Create an Oracle database user for the target database
      • Create the repository database instance
      • Create an Oracle user for the repository database instance
      • Verify the Oracle listener configuration
    • Install SnapManager
      • Integrate with SAP BR* Tools
    • Set up SnapManager
      • Start the SnapManager server
      • Access the SnapManager user interface
      • Configure the SnapManager repository
    • Preparing storage systems for SnapMirror and SnapVault replication
      • Understanding the differences between SnapMirror and SnapVault
      • Prepare storage systems for SnapMirror replication
      • Prepare storage systems for SnapVault replication
    • Backing up and verifying your databases
      • SnapManager backup overview
      • Defining a backup strategy
      • Create a profile for your database
      • Back up your database
      • Verify database backups
      • Schedule recurring backups
    • Uninstall the software from a UNIX host
    • Upgrading SnapManager
      • Preparing to upgrade SnapManager
      • Upgrade the SnapManager hosts
      • Post-upgrade tasks
        • Update the existing repository
        • Modify the backup retention class
        • Restore process types
      • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
        • Prerequisites for performing rolling upgrades
        • Perform rolling upgrade on a single host or multiple hosts
        • What a rollback is
          • Limitations for performing a rollback
          • Prerequisites for performing a rollback
          • Perform a rollback on a single host or multiple hosts
          • Post rollback tasks
    • Where to go next
  • Administration for UNIX
    • Product overview
      • Create backups using Snapshot copies
      • Why you should prune archive log files
      • Archive log consolidation
      • Full or partial restoration of databases
      • Verify backup status
      • Database backup clones
      • Track details and produce reports
      • What repositories are
      • What profiles are
      • What SnapManager operation states are
      • How SnapManager maintains security
      • Access and print online Help
      • Recommended general database layouts and storage configurations
        • Define the database home with the oratab file
        • Requirements for using RAC databases with SnapManager
        • Supported partition devices
        • Requirements for using databases with NFS and SnapManager
        • Sample database volume layouts
      • Limitations when working with SnapManager
        • SnapManager limitations for clustered Data ONTAP
        • Limitations related to Oracle Database
          • Deprecated versions of Oracle database
        • Volume management restrictions
    • Configuring SnapManager
      • SnapManager configuration parameters
        • Edit the configuration parameters
      • Configure SnapDrive for UNIX for an active/active Veritas SFRAC environment
      • Configure SnapManager to support the Veritas SFRAC environment
    • Security and credential management
      • What user authentication is
      • About role-based access control
        • Enable role-based access control
        • Set role-based access control capabilities and roles
      • Store encrypted passwords for custom scripts
      • Authorize access to the repository
      • Authorize access to profiles
      • View user credentials
      • Clear user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
        • Set credentials after clearing the credential cache
      • Delete credentials for individual resources
        • Delete user credentials for repositories
        • Delete user credentials for hosts
        • Delete user credentials for profiles
    • Managing profiles for efficient backups
      • Create profiles
      • Snapshot copy naming
      • Rename profiles
      • Change profile passwords
      • Reset the profile password
      • Authorize access to profiles
      • Verify profiles
      • Update profiles
      • Delete profiles
    • Backing up databases
      • What SnapManager database backups are
      • What full and partial backups are
        • Backup types and the number of Snapshot copies
        • Full online backups
        • Partial online backups
        • Examples of backup, restore, and recover operations
      • About control file and archive log file handling
      • What database backup scheduling is
      • Create database backups
        • Prune archive log files
        • Consolidate archive log backups
        • Schedule archive log file pruning
        • Protect archive log backups
      • What AutoSupport is
        • Add storage systems operating in clustered Data ONTAP to the SnapManager server host
        • Enable AutoSupport in SnapManager
        • Disable AutoSupport in SnapManager
      • Verify database backups
      • Change the backup retention policy
        • Retain backups forever
        • Assign backups with a specific retention class
        • Change the retention policy default behavior
        • Free or delete retention policy exempt backups
      • View a list of backups
      • View backup details
      • Mount backups
      • Unmount backups
      • Free backups
      • Delete backups
    • Scheduling database backups
      • Create backup schedules
      • Update a backup schedule
      • View a list of scheduled operations
      • Suspend backup schedules
      • Resume backup schedules
      • Delete backup schedules
    • Restoring database backups
      • What database restore is
        • Guidelines for when you can use fast restore
          • Advantages and disadvantages of using fast restore
        • Fast restore eligibility checks
        • Backup recovery
        • Database state needed for the restore process
        • What restore preview plans are
      • Preview backup restore information
      • Restore backups by using fast restore
      • Restore backups by using Single File SnapRestore
      • Restore backups on primary storage
      • Restore files from an alternate location
        • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
          • Restoration of the data from files
          • Restoration of data from the file system
          • Restoration of the data from raw devices
        • Create restore specifications
        • Restore backups from an alternate location
    • Cloning database backup
      • What Cloning is
      • Cloning methods
      • Create clone specifications
        • Clone databases and using custom plug-in scripts
      • Clone databases from backups
      • Clone databases in the current state
      • Clone database backups without resetlogs
      • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
        • Clone a database to an alternate host
      • View a list of clones
      • View detailed clone information
      • Delete clones
      • Splitting a clone
        • View a clone split estimate
        • Split a clone on primary or secondary storage
        • View the status of the clone split process
        • View the result of the clone split process
        • Stop the clone split process
        • Delete a profile
        • Destroy a profile
        • Delete a clone split operation cycle from a repository database
    • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
      • What protection policies are
      • What protection states are
      • What resource pools are
      • About different protection policies
      • Configuring and enabling policy-driven data protection
        • Configure DataFabric Manager server and SnapDrive when RBAC is enabled
        • Configure SnapDrive when RBAC is not enabled
        • Understanding enabling or disabling of data protection in profile
      • How SnapManager retains backups on the local storage
      • Considerations for performing data protection
        • Licences required for data protection in SnapManager
      • Protect database backups on secondary or tertiary storage
      • Restoring protected backups from secondary storage
        • Restores of protected backups overview
        • Restore backups from secondary storage
      • Clone protected backups
    • SnapManager for SAP uses Protection Manager to protect a database backup
      • Details of the target database
      • Primary and secondary storage configuration and topology
      • Backup schedule and retention strategy
      • Workflow summary for local and secondary database backup
      • Protected backup configuration and execution
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to create the database profile for a local backup
        • Use Protection Manager to configure a secondary resource pool
        • Use Protection Manager to configure secondary backup schedules
        • Use Protection Manager to configure a secondary backup protection policy
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to create the database profile and assign a protection policy
        • Use Protection Manager to provision the new dataset
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to create a protected backup
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to confirm backup protection
      • Database restore from backup
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to restore a local backup on primary storage
        • Use SnapManager for SAP to restore backups from secondary storage
    • Performing management operations
      • View a list of operations
      • View operation details
      • Issue commands from an alternate host
      • Check the SnapManager software version
      • Stop the SnapManager host server
      • Restart the SnapManager UNIX host server
      • Uninstall the software from a UNIX host
    • Configuring an email notification
      • Configure a mail server for a repository
      • Configure email notification for a new profile
        • Customize the email subject for a new profile
      • Configure email notification for an existing profile
        • Customize the email subject for an existing profile
      • Configure summary email notification for multiple profiles
      • Add a new profile to summary email notifications
      • Add an existing profile to summary email notifications
      • Disable email notification for multiple profiles
    • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
      • Create pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
        • Operations in task scripts
        • Variables available in the task scripts for the backup operation
        • Variables available in the task scripts for the restore operation
        • Variables available in the task scripts for clone operation
        • Error handling in custom scripts
      • View sample plug-in scripts
      • Create task scripts
      • Store the task scripts
      • Verify the installation of plug-in scripts
      • Create a task specification file
      • Perform backup, restore, and clone operations using prescript and post-scripts
    • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
      • Update the storage system name associated with a profile
      • View a list of storage systems associated with a profile
      • Update the target database host name associated with a profile
    • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
      • Configure history for SnapManager operation
      • View a list of SnapManager operation history
      • View the detailed history of a specific operation associated with a profile
      • Delete history of SnapManager operation
      • Remove history settings associated with a single profile or multiple profiles
      • View SnapManager history configuration details
    • Using BR*Tools with SnapManager for SAP
      • What BR*Tools are
      • Disabling client access to Snapshot copies
      • Profile usage for BR*Tools backups
      • Database backups created using BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE
      • Schedule backups with SAP transaction DB13
      • Database restore by using BRRESTORE and BRRECOVER
      • Backing up and restoring files using BR*Tools
      • Restoring a backup to a different host
      • Restoring a backup from a secondary storage to a different location
    • SnapManager for SAP command reference
      • The backint register-sld command
      • The smsap_server restart command
      • The smsap_server start command
      • The smsap_server status command
      • The smsap_server stop command
      • The smsap backup create command
      • The smsap backup delete command
      • The smsap backup free command
      • The smsap backup list command
      • The smsap backup mount command
      • The smsap backup restore command
      • The smsap backup show command
      • The smsap backup unmount command
      • The smsap backup update command
      • The smsap backup verify command
      • The smsap clone create command
      • The smsap clone delete command
      • The smsap clone list command
      • The smsap clone show command
      • The smsap clone template command
      • The smsap clone update command
      • The smsap clone split-delete command
      • The smsap clone split-estimate command
      • The smsap clone split command
      • The smsap clone split-result command
      • The smsap clone split-stop command
      • The smsap clone split-status command
      • The smsap clone detach command
      • The smsap cmdfile command
      • The smsap credential clear command
      • The smsap credential delete command
      • The smsap credential list command
      • The smsap credential set command
      • The smsap history list command
      • The smsap history operation-show command
      • The smsap history purge command
      • The smsap history remove command
      • The smsap history set command
      • The smsap history show command
      • The smsap help command
      • The smsap notification remove-summary-notification command
      • The smsap notification update-summary-notification command
      • The smsap notification set command
      • The smsap operation dump command
      • The smsap operation list command
      • The smsap operation show command
      • The smsap password reset command
      • The smsap plugin check command
      • The smsap profile create command
      • The smsap profile delete command
      • The smsap profile destroy command
      • The smsap profile dump command
      • The smsap profile list command
      • The smsap profile show command
      • The smsap profile sync command
      • The smsap profile update command
      • The smsap profile verify command
      • The smsap protection-policy command
      • The smsap repository create command
      • The smsap repository delete command
      • The smsap repository rollback command
      • The smsap repository rollingupgrade command
      • The smsap repository show command
      • The smsap repository update command
      • The smsap schedule create command
      • The smsap schedule delete command
      • The smsap schedule list command
      • The smsap schedule resume command
      • The smsap schedule suspend command
      • The smsap schedule update command
      • The smsap storage list command
      • The smsap storage rename command
      • The smsap system dump command
      • The smsap system verify command
      • The smsap version command
    • Troubleshooting SnapManager
      • Dump files
        • Create operation-level dump files
        • Create profile-level dump files
        • Create system-level dump files
        • How to locate dump files
        • How to collect dump files
        • Collecting additional log information for easier debugging
      • Troubleshooting clone issues
      • Troubleshooting graphical user interface issues
      • Troubleshooting SnapDrive issues
      • Troubleshooting storage system renaming issue
      • Troubleshooting known issues
      • Mounting a FlexClone volume fails in NFS environment
      • Running multiple parallel operations fails in SnapManager
      • Where to go for more information
    • Error message classifications
    • Error messages
  • Installation and Administration for Windows
    • What SnapManagerfor SAP is
      • What SnapManager for SAP does
      • Integration with other NetApp applications and technologies
      • Advantages of using SnapManager
        • Create backups using Snapshot copies
        • Why you should prune archive log files
        • Archive log consolidation
        • Full or partial restoration of databases
        • Verify backup status
        • Database backup clones
        • Track details and produce reports
      • What the SnapManager for SAP architecture is
        • SnapManager host
        • SnapManager graphical user and command-line interfaces
        • SnapManager repository
        • SnapDrive on SnapManager server
      • What repositories are
      • What profiles are
      • What SnapManager operation states are
      • How SnapManager maintains security
      • Access and print online Help
    • SnapManager for SAP deployment considerations
      • Requirements for running SnapManager
        • Supported host hardware
        • Supported general configurations
        • Clustered configurations
      • Database version support and configuration overview
        • General layout and configuration
        • Sample database volume layouts
      • Limitations when working with SnapManager
      • SnapManager features and Oracle technologies not supported on Windows
      • SnapManager limitations for clustered Data ONTAP
      • Limitations related to Oracle Database
      • Deprecated versions of Oracle database
    • Installing SnapManager for SAP
      • Preparing to install SnapManager for SAP
        • Preinstallation tasks
        • Download the SnapManager for SAP installation package
      • Install SnapManager for SAP
      • Integrate with SAP BR* Tools
    • Upgrading SnapManager
      • Preparing to upgrade SnapManager
      • Upgrade SnapManager hosts
      • Post-upgrade tasks
        • Update the existing repository
        • Modify the backup retention class
      • Upgrading SnapManager hosts by using rolling upgrade
        • Prerequisites for performing rolling upgrades
        • Perform roll upgrade on a single host or multiple hosts
        • What a rollback is
          • Limitations for performing a rollback
          • Prerequisites for performing a rollback
          • Perform a rollback on a single host or multiple hosts
          • Post rollback tasks
    • Configuring SnapManager
      • SnapManager configuration parameters
        • Edit the configuration parameters
    • Start SnapManagerfor SAP
      • Identify an existing database to backup
      • Verify the Oracle listener status
      • Create Oracle users for the repository database
      • Create an Oracle user for the target database
      • Accessing SnapManager
        • Start the SnapManager host server
          • Verify the SnapManager host server status
        • Use SnapManager commands
        • Start the SnapManager GUI
        • Download and start the graphical user interface using Java Web Start
      • Verify the environment
        • Verify SnapDrive for Windows
      • Create repositories
        • How to organize repositories
      • Order of performing operations
    • Security and credential management
      • What user authentication is
      • Store encrypted passwords for custom scripts
      • Authorize access to the repository
      • Authorize access to profiles
      • View user credentials
      • Clear user credentials for all hosts, repositories, and profiles
        • Set credentials after clearing the credential cache
      • Delete credentials for individual resources
        • Delete user credentials for repositories
        • Delete user credentials for hosts
        • Delete user credentials for profiles
    • Managing profiles for efficient backups
      • Create profiles
      • Snapshot copy naming
      • Rename profiles
      • Change profile passwords
      • Reset the profile password
      • Authorize access to profiles
      • Verify profiles
      • Update profiles
      • Delete profiles
    • Backing up databases
      • What SnapManager database backups are
      • What full and partial backups are
        • Backup types and the number of Snapshot copies
        • Full online backups
        • Partial online backups
        • Examples of backup, restore, and recover operations
      • About control file and archive log file handling
      • What database backup scheduling is
      • Create database backups
        • Prune archive log files
        • Consolidate archive log backups
        • Schedule archive log file pruning
      • What AutoSupport is
        • Add storage systems operating in clustered Data ONTAP to the SnapManager server host
        • Enable AutoSupport in SnapManager
        • Disable AutoSupport in SnapManager
      • Verify database backups
      • Change the backup retention policy
        • Retain backups forever
        • Assign backups with a specific retention class
        • Change the retention policy default behavior
        • Free or delete retention policy exempt backups
      • View a list of backups
      • View backup details
      • Mount backups
      • Unmount backups
      • Free backups
      • Delete backups
    • Scheduling database backups
      • Create backup schedules
      • Update a backup schedule
      • View a list of scheduled operations
      • Suspend backup schedules
      • Resume backup schedules
      • Delete backup schedules
    • Restoring database backups
      • What database restore is
        • Backup recovery
        • Database state needed for the restore process
        • What restore preview plans are
      • Preview backup restore information
      • Restore backups on primary storage
      • Restore files from an alternate location
        • Restore backups from an alternate location overview
          • Restoration of the data from files
          • Restoration of data from the file system
        • Create restore specifications
        • Restore backups from an alternate location
    • Cloning database backup
      • What Cloning is
      • Cloning methods
      • Create clone specifications
        • Clone databases and using custom plug-in scripts
      • Clone databases from backups
      • Clone databases in the current state
      • Clone database backups without resetlogs
      • Considerations for cloning a database to an alternate host
        • Clone a database to an alternate host
      • View a list of clones
      • View detailed clone information
      • Delete clones
    • Introduction to data protection in SnapManager
      • How SnapManager retains backups on the local storage
      • Considerations for performing data protection
        • Licences required for data protection in SnapManager
      • Protecting database backups by using postscripts
        • Sample post-scripts
        • Create or update the post scripts
          • Create post-process, task-specification files
            • Use post-processing task specification to mirror volumes
            • Use post-processing task specification to vault qtrees
    • Performing management operations
      • View a list of operations
      • View operation details
      • Issue commands from an alternate host
      • Check the SnapManager software version
      • Stop the SnapManager host server
      • Restart the SnapManager host server
      • Uninstall SnapManager
    • Configuring an email notification
      • Configure a mail server for a repository
      • Configure email notification for a new profile
        • Customize the email subject for a new profile
      • Configure email notification for an existing profile
        • Customize the email subject for an existing profile
      • Configure summary email notification for multiple profiles
      • Add a new profile to summary email notifications
      • Add an existing profile to summary email notifications
      • Disable email notification for multiple profiles
    • Creating task specification file and scripts for SnapManager operations
      • Create pretask, post-task, and policy scripts
        • Operations in task scripts
        • Variables available in the task scripts for the backup operation
        • Variables available in the task scripts for the restore operation
        • Variables available in the task scripts for clone operation
        • Error handling in custom scripts
      • View sample plug-in scripts
      • Create task scripts
      • Store the task scripts
      • Verify the installation of plug-in scripts
      • Create a task specification file
      • Perform backup, restore, and clone operations using prescript and post-scripts
    • Updating storage system name and target database host name associated with a profile
      • Update the storage system name associated with a profile
      • View a list of storage systems associated with a profile
      • Update the target database host name associated with a profile
    • Maintaining history of SnapManager operations
      • Configure history for SnapManager operation
      • View a list of SnapManager operation history
      • View the detailed history of a specific operation associated with a profile
      • Delete history of SnapManager operation
      • Remove history settings associated with a single profile or multiple profiles
      • View SnapManager history configuration details
    • Using BR*Tools with SnapManager for SAP
      • What BR*Tools are
      • Set the path for BR*Tools
      • Disabling client access to Snapshot copies
      • Profile usage for BR*Tools backups
      • Database backups created using BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE
      • Schedule backups with SAP transaction DB13
      • Database restore by using BRRESTORE and BRRECOVER
      • Backing up and restoring files using BR*Tools
      • Restoring a backup to a different host
    • SnapManager for SAP command reference
      • The backint register-sld command
      • The smsap_server restart command
      • The smsap_server start command
      • The smsap_server status command
      • The smsap_server stop command
      • The smsap backup create command
      • The smsap backup delete command
      • The smsap backup free command
      • The smsap backup list command
      • The smsap backup mount command
      • The smsap backup restore command
      • The smsap backup show command
      • The smsap backup unmount command
      • The smsap backup update command
      • The smsap backup verify command
      • The smsap clone create command
      • The smsap clone delete command
      • The smsap clone list command
      • The smsap clone show command
      • The smsap clone template command
      • The smsap clone update command
      • The smsap clone detach command
      • The smsap cmdfile command
      • The smsap credential clear command
      • The smsap credential delete command
      • The smsap credential list command
      • The smsap credential set command
      • The smsap history list command
      • The smsap history operation-show command
      • The smsap history purge command
      • The smsap history remove command
      • The smsap history set command
      • The smsap history show command
      • The smsap help command
      • The smsap notification remove-summary-notification command
      • The smsap notification update-summary-notification command
      • The smsap notification set command
      • The smsap operation dump command
      • The smsap operation list command
      • The smsap operation show command
      • The smsap password reset command
      • The smsap profile create command
      • The smsap profile delete command
      • The smsap profile dump command
      • The smsap profile list command
      • The smsap profile show command
      • The smsap profile sync command
      • The smsap profile update command
      • The smsap profile verify command
      • The smsap repository create command
      • The smsap repository delete command
      • The smsap repository rollback command
      • The smsap repository rollingupgrade command
      • The smsap repository show command
      • The smsap repository update command
      • The smsap schedule create command
      • The smsap schedule delete command
      • The smsap schedule list command
      • The smsap schedule resume command
      • The smsap schedule suspend command
      • The smsap schedule update command
      • The smsap storage list command
      • The smsap storage rename command
      • The smsap system dump command
      • The smsap system verify command
      • The smsap version command
    • Troubleshooting SnapManager
      • Dump files
        • Create operation-level dump files
        • Create profile-level dump files
        • Create system-level dump files
        • How to locate dump files
        • How to collect dump files
        • Collecting additional log information for easier debugging
      • Troubleshooting clone issues
      • Troubleshooting graphical user interface issues
      • Troubleshooting known issues
      • Running multiple parallel operations fails in SnapManager
      • Unable to restore RAC database from one of the RAC nodes where the profile was not created
      • Where to go for more information
    • Error message classifications
    • Error messages
  • Legal notices