Planning Guide for the Connector for SAP Landscape Management
Efficient options for SAP system copies
There are various ways to tame this time robber and reduce run times. For example, through parallelization or the automatic generation of secondary indices.
For a heterogeneous system copy and for homogeneous system copies for which there is no special way for the database used, the source system must be exported. This is done with SAP tools (SUM). The export files are copied to the prepared target system and imported again during the SAP installation with SUM. A relatively comfortable way. But it can be even more comfortable.
What is System Copy as a Service?
The number of R3load processes to be started in parallel is specified in the {ex|im}port_monitor_cmd.properties configuration file. The Migration Monitor stores the state of the export or import process in the {ex|im}port_state.properties file. For each package being processed, there is a = line.
The freeware Scribble Papers is a "note box" in which all kinds of data can be stored. It takes in typed texts as well as graphics and entire documents. The data is then organised in folders and pages.
Table splitting reduces the risk of losing a lot of time during export in case of an error. When restarting, the complete table does not have to be exported again, but only a subset. Simultaneous processing of a table by several R3load processes can reduce the total runtime for this table.
With "Shortcut for SAP Systems", a mature and yet very cost-effective product is available that offers useful functions for system copies. For example, SAP system users can be backed up and restored. Likewise, system-specific tables can be backed up before the system copy and restored after the system copy. And all this can also be automated.
If necessary, the system is copied incrementally, table by table, on weekends and at night.
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Advantages: significant reduction of manual pre- and post-processing, documented, automatable and reproducible, quality assurance, in the productive system, customer-specific adaptations of the processes possible, individual templates can be created for each target system, no training necessary.