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How To Backup HANA System

The document describes how to perform an ad hoc backup of an SAP HANA database. It provides steps to launch the HANA studio administration perspective, connect to the system, select backup from the context menu, configure backup parameters if needed, review and start the backup, and monitor progress. It also provides an SQL statement to trigger a backup.

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How To Backup HANA System

The document describes how to perform an ad hoc backup of an SAP HANA database. It provides steps to launch the HANA studio administration perspective, connect to the system, select backup from the context menu, configure backup parameters if needed, review and start the backup, and monitor progress. It also provides an SQL statement to trigger a backup.

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How to backup HANA system?

Requirement : You want to perform ad hoc HANA database backup.


Prerequisite : You need a HANA database user with BACKUP OPERATOR or
BACKUP ADMIN role assigned.
Step :

 Launch HANA studio and Open Administration perspective, You can open it
from Window > Open > Perspective > Administration Console.
 Connect to your HANA system. In our case its K2K system.
 Now select "Backup up system" from the context menu of backup node(shown
below).

It will launch the backup wizard and will use the default Backup destination and Backup
prefix parameter. The default backup destination path can be changed by changing
following parameters in global.ini >persistence.
basepath_databackup = $(DIR_INSTANCE)/backup/data (default value)

 Make changes to these default values if required and press next.


 Review the information in next screen and press 'Finish'.
 Now the backup is started and wizard will show you the progress for each service
backup.
 Once the backup is finished , it will create following files at OS level. Note the
number of files generated.

One can also trigger backup by executing the following SQL in SQL console.

BACKUP DATA USING FILE ('/usr/sap/K2K/HDB00/backup/data');


Note : Backup using SQL statements is only recommended for batch mode.

Reference : http://help.sap.com

Related Wiki:

HANA backup size/space estimation


We are planning HANA backup strategy and we need estimate of disk requirement. We
can use HANA standard view M_CONVERTER_STATISTICS to estimate the backup
requirement.

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