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Procedure documentation Recovery Wizard Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

You can use the Recovery Wizard to guide you through the entire process of restoring the data of your database instance.

You can start the Recovery Wizard on a Windows-based server to restore data on either a local or remote server.

The Recovery Wizard always proposes the quickest procedure for recovering lost data. Any complete data backups are restored first, followed by, if necessary, an incremental data backup and log backups.

To make sure that the data is recovered as quickly as possible, data backups can be retrieved from multiple backup media at the same time. The number of media in a group of parallel backup media does not have to be the same as the number of parallel backup media used for the original backup. A backup made to a single medium with succeeding media can also be restored in parallel. You can use up to 32 tape drives to reduce recovery times significantly.

Note

Log backups cannot be restored in parallel.

Procedure

In the Database Manager GUI, choose Instance ® Recovery ® Recovery...

Choose Next to start each of the required recovery steps.

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       1.      You can recover the data of a database instance either locally, or on a remote host.
Choose your database instance, or enter the following information directly:
Information about the database instance
   Database Server: Enter the server name.
   Database Name: Enter the database name.
Information about the Database Manager operator (DBM operator)
   User Name: Enter the name of the Database Manager operator.
   Password: Enter the password.

       2.      You can switch the database instance to the operational state of your choice. When you recover data, you require the operational state ADMIN.

       3.      Choose a recovery type:
Restore last backup: Restore the last complete backup
Restore a specified backup from history
: Restore a backup from the backup history
Restore a medium
: Restoring without a backup history
Continue restoring pages/log
: This setting is displayed if you need to continue an interrupted recovery.
Restore database until a specified time
: If you only want to restore the database to a specific time, select this setting, and enter a time.

       4.      The recovery strategy is displayed. The system prompts you to mount the required backup media.

       5.      Start the recovery.

       6.      Close the Recovery Wizard.

Result

The database instance has been recovered to the state you specified.

If the recovery procedure provided by the Recovery Wizard does not produce the required results, you might have to use one of the procedures for restoring after initializing a database instance.

See also:

Concepts, Backing Up and Restoring

 

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