SAP Environment Planning
Keep in mind the following requirements and limitations for your SAP environment, before you deploy Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA.
To learn how to configure external schedulers, see the Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA Best Practices.
Plan the protection of the encryption environment. In case you loose the encryption keys, Veeam Plug-in can only provide an access to the encrypted backup file. To regain full access to the backup files, you will have to decrypt data in your SAP HANA environment. For more information on SAP HANA data encryption, see this SAP article.
SAP HANA Catalog Backup with Backint
To back up the SAP HANA catalog using Backint, change the settings of the catalog_backup_using_backint parameter in the backup section of the global.ini file. To learn more, see this SAP article.
Consider the following limitations of Veeam Plug-in support for SAP HANA scale-out clusters:
- All backup tasks across the SAP HANA scale-out cluster are performed in parallel.
- On all cluster nodes, Veeam Plug-in must be configured to transfer backups to the same repository.
- Due to the design of SAP HANA databases, the same Veeam Plug-in configuration must be set on all scale-out cluster members, including stand-by nodes.
SAP HANA System Replication Failover
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You must perform full database backup at least once after each failover or failback, so that SAP HANA starts to create automatic log backups. |
