Backing up SAP HANA applications

With R‑Cloud, you can back up your SAP HANA application data securely and efficiently.

Prerequisites

  • Only if you plan to back up applications running on instances that use Shared VPC networks. Your user account or the HYCU Managed Service Account (HMSA) must be granted the following permissions in the Shared VPC host project: compute.firewalls.list, compute.networks.list, compute.networks.get, compute.subnetworks.list, compute.subnetworks.use, and compute.subnetworks.get.

  • The minimum required SAP HANA privileges of the configured SAP HANA database user must be BACKUP ADMIN and CATALOG READ.
  • The configured SAP HANA database user must have access permissions to all databases that are being backed up.

  • For SAP HANA systems with the same SID: A separate target must be configured for each SAP HANA system.

Limitation

SAP HANA application data can be stored only to Google Cloud targets.

Considerations

  • Application data can be stored only to manually created targets, and not to automatically created targets or as a snapshot.

  • Before each backup task, the Backint agent is configured to use the service account that you specified when setting up the target for storing backup data. If you are using the default instance service account, the access scope for storage must be Read Write. For details on Cloud API access scopes, see Google Cloud documentation.
  • During each backup task, R‑Cloud activates also the automatic backup of logs and backup catalogs using the Backint agent.
  • Only if you have set up SAP HANA system replication. You can assign the policy only to the primary system. In the event of a failover, after the secondary system takes over from the primary system, make sure to assign the policy to the new primary system.

To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click Applications Applications.

Procedure

  1. In the Applications panel, select the applications that you want to back up.

    Tip  To narrow down the list of displayed applications, you can use the filtering options as described in Filtering and sorting data.

  2. Click Policies Set Policy. The Set Policy dialog box opens.

  3. From the list of available policies, select the preferred policy.

  4. Click Assign to assign the policy to the selected applications.

After you assign a policy to an application, a backup task starts immediately. Subsequent backups are scheduled according to the values defined in the policy.

If required, you can also perform a manual backup of any application at any time. For details, see Performing manual backups.