SAP SYSTEM COPY
For companies that use SAP, SAP system copies are an important part of the IT strategy. System copies make it possible to clone data from a productive system in order to make it available for various test scenarios or to use it as a basis for developing new functions. This allows companies to test changes to their SAP systems in a secure environment before implementing them in the production environment.
Carrying out SAP system copies is a complex task that is usually only undertaken by experienced SAP administrators or SAP basis teams. One of the challenges is that making system copies takes a lot of time and resources as it is a process involving many steps and dependencies. Finally, manually performing SAP system copies can lead to errors that can negatively impact data integrity.
automatics counteracts these challenges when performing SAP system copies, especially with regard to the time and personnel required. Through automation, organizations can save the time and resources required to manually perform system copies while minimizing errors.
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Automatics supports SAP NetWeaver-based SAP products, as well as all SAP-supported databases (SAP HANA DB, SAP MaxDB, SAP ASE, Oracle DB, IBM DB2, MSSQL) and operating systems (AIX, Linux (SLES and RHEL), Windows).
Simple & intuitive operation
Flexible and adaptable processes for preliminary and follow-up work in the SAP system
Provision of all necessary tasks for backup and re-import of configurations on the target systems
Individual use of data backups, as required
Consideration of possible manual steps in the automation process
Addition of customer-specific infrastructure operations (backup/restore for existing systems, system setup for new systems)
Perfect overview and transparent recording of all operations
SYSTEM COPY
PREPARATION
During the preparation phase, more than 50 tasks ensure that the target system is ideally prepared for the technical transfer of data from a source system. automatics carries out initial consistency checks, saves all critical and system-relevant information in the form of over 1100 tables and suspends the background jobs. Finally, the SAP components of the target system are stopped in order to transfer the data.
SYSTEM COPY
IMPLEMENTATION & CLEANUP
The automation of storage, backup and restore activities can be mapped quickly and easily with the help of automatics custom workflows. No matter which backup solution you use, automatics offers you the option of integrating it into the system copy processes.
After the data has been transferred from a source system, the system is started by automatics without batch processes and all technically necessary clean-ups are carried out. (BATCHJOBS (SM37), CCMS, BGRFC, ...)
SYSTEM POST-COPY
PROCESSING
As soon as the data has been imported from the source system and cleaned up, automatics takes care of re-importing the previously saved critical and system-relevant information into the target system. Subsequently, background processes are reactivated, printers are configured (SPAD), jobs are scheduled again and a final consistency check is carried out.