212876 - The new archiving tool SAPCAR

Other Terms

SAPCAR, CAR, SAR

Reason and Prerequisites

Note: Use always the newest available SAPCAR release compatible to your operating system. You can download a patched version of SAPCAR from the SAP Service Marketplace: http://service.sap.com/patches -> Support Packages and Patches -> Browse Our Download Catalog -> Additional Components -> SAPCAR. Then add the SAPCAR version for your OS to the Download Basket.

Note that the downloadable file is tagged with the .exe extension for all OS platforms because of software center naming conventions. On UNIX platforms you have to delete the extension and to rename the file to SAPCAR because this is the official tool name which is known by other SAP tools on UNIX platforms. The downloadable file is not compressed so you may run it without extracting it before.

As of R/3 Release 4.6C, the new archiving tool SAPCAR replaces the previous archiving tool CAR. This results in some special considerations listed below.

Solution

    According to the replacement of CAR, the extension of the archive files delivered by SAP changes from '.CAR' to '.SAR' for files concerning R/3 Release 4.6C or higher.

    The command line interface of SAPCAR is downward compatible with the command line interface of CAR. The only two exceptions to this are:

        During extraction, SAPCAR checks the file name extensions of the archives you want to extract from. The extensions '.CAR' and '.SAR' are both