cheat sheet for SAP system copy with Networker

One should use backint (via cpio) for SAP Backup instead of rman because SAP brtools do not support restore on different server via rman
Create an offline-backup on your SAP source system (PRD), when using online-backup “online consistent” should be preferred, because this type includes all related archivelogs.
A good idea is to optimize for restore performance. If you use tape drives you should avoid often positioning (rewind/forward) and tape changes. You can do that by activating saveset bundling and reduce multiplexing.
Identify your backup-log and -config-files on your source system, copy them to your destination system, customize them if necessary
- copy PRD-server:/oracle/PRD/sapbackup/<PRD offline-backup log>.aff to QAS-server:/oracle/QAS/sapbackup
- copy the files initPRD.sap and initPRD.utl from PRD-server:/oracle/PRD/102_64/dbs/ to QAS-server:/oracle/QAS/102_64/dbs/
- in initPRD.utl add client=PRD-server – this isn’t necessary for standard backup/restore, only when destination is different from source
Start restore with brrestore -m full,PSAPTEMP,00,0 -p initPRD.sap -b <PRD offline-backup log>.aff -r initPRD.utl
After that you have to do customization in SAP as usual