Procedure documentation Creating a Single Archive of the Version Files Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You archive the original Structure linkversion files for the log area. To do this, you copy the version files using an Structure linkexternal backup tool to an Structure linkexternal backup medium.

Note

If you want to backup the same version files more than once to different external backup media, first use the archive_stage command described here and then the command to Archive the Version Files of the Log Area More Than Once.

 

Prerequisites

You have the DBM operator authorization Backup.

You have backed up the log (Structure linkLog Backup).

The external backup medium is defined for the backup type LOG (Defining or Changing a Backup Medium).

Syntax

archive_stage <ext_backup_medium> <log_medium> [VERIFY | NOVERIFY] [REMOVE | KEEP] [FNL <list>]

<ext_backup_medium>

Name of the external backup medium

<log_medium>

Name of the Structure linkbackup medium that was used for the log backup

VERIFY

System default value

The archived files are compared with the original files.

NOVERIFY

Only the usual checks as to whether the backup was successful are performed by the system. The system displays error messages and the output of the backup tools.

REMOVE

System default value

The original files are deleted after they have been successfully archived to the external backup medium.

KEEP

The original files are archived, but not then deleted.

FNL

File Number List: Keyword of the list of files to be archived

<list>

File name or area or file names,

you can leave out leading zeros. Separate multiple specifications using commas.

If you do not specify a file list, all version files on the backup medium that are also in the Structure linkbackup history are copied.

 

Note

In most cases, it is not necessary to specify a file number list, as all completed version files are archived with the command archive_stage. The system obtains the information about which files are complete from the backup history.
Only specify the keyword FNL and the file number list if version files that you are sure were created are not in the backup history due to an error. This would be the case, for example, if the version files with the number 10 and 12 are in the backup history, but number 11 is missing.

 

Example

Archiving the originals of the version files 1 and 3-10
These are on the backup medium LOGMEDIUM and are archived to the external backup medium EXTMEDIUM. Only the usual system checks are to be performed. The version files should not then be deleted.

archive_stage EXTMEDIUM LOGMEDIUM NOVERIFY KEEP FNL 1,3-10

Reply:

OK
Processed Stage Files 9
Bytes Processed 12845056
Deleted Stage Files 0
Remaining Stage Files 2

 

Result

The system displays an OK message and information about the archived version files.

The archived version files are assigned their own Structure linkexternal backup IDs and are entered in the Structure linkbackup history.

Processed Stage Files

Processed version files

Bytes Processed

Processed bytes

Deleted Stage Files

Deleted version files

Remaining Stage Files

Remaining version files