Upgrading Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle

Periodically, Veeam releases a new version of Veeam Backup & Replication that contains new features and bug fixes. The release package also contains a new version of Veeam Plug-ins.

If you want to upgrade Veeam Plug-in, note that Veeam Backup & Replication must be the same or later than the version of Veeam Plug-in. If you want to use the latest functionality, you must upgrade both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Plug-in to the latest version. After the upgrade, you don't need to re-run the Veeam Plug-in configuration wizard, the plug-in configuration files will be preserved.

Important

Consider the following:

You must upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication before you upgrade Veeam Plug-ins. To learn how to upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
Veeam Backup & Replication supports two latest versions of Veeam Plug-ins. For example, Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 supports Veeam Plug-in 12.1 and 12.

Keep in mind that if you use an earlier Veeam Plug-in build than the one that is included in the installation ISO file of your Veeam Backup & Replication version, it may not have all the features and bug fixes introduced in your Veeam Backup & Replication version. To learn more about the Veeam Plug-in builds included in Veeam Backup & Replication installation ISO files, see this Veeam KB article.

Operations in the terminal of the Linux machine require root privileges.

Before You Begin

Veeam Plug-in installation files are included in the installation disk image of Veeam Backup & Replication. You must upload the installation file to the SAP HANA server. To do this, perform the following steps:

Mount the Veeam Backup & Replication installation disk (VeeamBackup&Replication_12.1.0.2131.iso).
Open the mounted disk image and go to the Plugins\SAP on Oracle\x64 directory.
Select the Veeam Plug-in installation file and upload it to the SAP HANA server.

The upgrade procedure depends on the type of package that you use:

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (RPM)
Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (TAR.GZ)

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (.RPM)

To upgrade Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA from the .RPM package, perform the following:

Upload the new VeeamPluginforSAPOracle-12.1.0.2131-1.x86_64.rpm package to the SAP HANA server.
Run the following command. Note that the operation requires root privileges.

rpm -U VeeamPluginforSAPOracle-12.1.0.2131-1.x86_64.rpm

Tip

To find out which version of Veeam Plug-in is installed on your server, you can use the following command: rpm -qa | grep VeeamPlugin*

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (.TAR.GZ)

To upgrade Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle on a Linux machine from the .TAR.GZ archive, do the following:

Upload the VeeamPluginforSAPOracle.tar.gz file to the Oracle Database server.
In the terminal, open the folder that contains the VeeamPluginforSAPOracle.TAR.GZ archive.

Unpack the plug-in files from the archive to the /opt/veeam directory. Old Veeam Plug-in files will be replaced by new files.

tar -xzvf VeeamPluginforSAPOracle.tar.gz -C /opt/veeam