ABIO SAP Agent
ABIO SAP Agents help IT administrators perform a backup and recovery of SAP Oracle databases and SAP related configuration files through its seamless integration with BR tools. SAP administrators simply invoke the BRBACKUP command from the BR tools interface to back up and protect Oracle data files, SAP control files, other SAP profiles (or specified files) and SAP internal catalogs.

SAP is one of the world's largest software vendors, providing packaged commercial applications. SAP R/3 is an integrated client-server package, covering numerous business applications, such as accounting, human resources, logistics, and production planning.

At the core of an SAP R/3 installation, is the relational database where all business transactions are stored. As a result, backup and recovery of this database is an integral component of busness availability.

ABIO's SAP Agent is an enterprise-class solution, that automates and simplifies data backup and recovery for large-scale, multi-tier SAP deployments. ABIO's SAP Agent employs the BACKINT, which allows SAP R/3 SAPDBA utilities(BR tools), BRBACKUP, BRRESTORE, and BRARCHIVE to effectivly communicate with the ABIO storage management system.

High performance of backup and recovery operations, combined with efficient use of tape and disk usage, ensures that SAP databases are fully protected at all times, providing for greatly improved SAP data availability.

Key Features and Benefits

 Designed to provide online hot backup
Non-disruptive and complete SAP database protection. It ensures SAP databases remain fully accessible to users while a backup is in progress.

 Integrated with SAP utilities
ABIO fully integrates the SAP utility interface, such as BRBACKUP, BRESTORE and BRARCHIVE, so that it provides seamless database backup and recovery capabilities for SAP data protection.

 Improves data availability
ABIO supports several backup and recovery methods, enabling users to perform backup/restore operations of either the entire database, or specific databases . ABIO also provides an alternate destination recovery, when IT administrators need to access old archival data on present SAP database servers.

 Easy and fast deployment with the present infrastructure
ABIO helps IT administrators to make it easy to install, configure and manage ABIO SAP Agent and SAP data protection.

 Support Granularity Level of Backup and Restore
Provides support for configuration files, logs, and database backups, as well as providing the same backup/restore granularity as BRBACKUP, BRRESTORE, and BRARCHIVE.

 Web Browser-based management
ABIO¡¯s intuitive web browser GUI, helps to centralize and administer the SAP backup and recovery procedures. Administrators can initiate backup and recovery operations, as well as manage the SAP database from remote web locations.

 Designed to provide LAN-Free Backup in Heterogeneous SAN Environments
Administrators can perform LAN-free backup of SAP databases, or can perform a conventional LAN backup. In the event that a user has a multi-Terabyte SAP database, ABIO will employ a SAN backup, greatly enhancing backup performance and decreasing the backup window.

 Point-in-Time Recovery
ABIO provides point-in-time recovery functionality, that allows IT administrators to recall the entire SAP database to a specific time point that a user specifies.

 Script Facilities
Pre-job and post-job scripts allow IT administrators to automatically run customized scripts and commands, such as shutting down or restarting a database, prior to the execution or upon the completion of a job.