Introduction
SAP HANA Database is a database as a service (DBaaS) for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data. SAP HANA databases are mission-critical workloads that require a low recovery point objective (RPO) and a fast recovery time objective (RTO). The Azure backup is certified by SAP to provide backup support using native APIs. This backup doesn’t require deploying or managing the backup infrastructure. We can easily backup, restore the data, and run them on the Azure VMs.
SAP HANA Database Backup
The SAP HANA backup needs a connection to the Azure Backup service, Storage, and Active Directory to perform any operations on the database. The connection can be established by using the private endpoints or by allowing access to the required public IP addresses. Let’s explore the databases and create a backup in Azure.
- Open the Azure portal and log in with your credentials. If you don’t have an account, you can create one according to your preferred subscription and click on backup.
2. Select the SAP HANA in Azure VM as the Datasource type, select a Recovery Services vault to use for backup(here, we selected the contosovault), and then click on continue.
3. Fill in the details in the Backup goal and click on start discovery. After you click it, a list of VMs will appear; if the VMs aren't listed as expected, check if it’s already backed up in a vault or select the link to download scripts from the Select Virtual Machines list.
4. Now click on configure backup and select the items to backup along with databases you want to protect.
5. Choose a backup policy and create one for the databases according to the instructions.
6. Now click on enable backup after creating the policy.
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