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  3. NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide
  5. Introduction to NetBackup SAP HANA
  7. SAP HANA features
NetBackup™ for SAP Administrator's Guide

SAP HANA features

Table: SAP HANA features

Feature

Description

NetBackup integration

Full integration with the NetBackup primary server and media manager. Job monitoring from the primary server.

Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC)

The NetBackup web UI provides RBAC roles to control which NetBackup users can manage SAP HANA operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage SAP HANA operations.

SAP HANA Intelligent Policy

The following benefits are included:

  • Use an intelligent policy to protect the following: Multiple SAP HANA instances or instance databases. Instances can be spread over multiple clients.

  • Include a full, differential, cumulative incremental, and log backup in the same policy.

  • You are not required to know SAP HANA commands or to write and use batch files.

Management of SAP HANA assets

NetBackup automatically discovers SAP HANA instances and databases in the environment. You can also perform manual discovery.

After instances are registered, the SAP HANA workload administrator can protect the SAP HANA assets with a policy.

Authentication and credentials

SAP HANA Intelligent Policy supports the following database users created in the SYSTEMDB:

  • SYSTEM

  • Backup admin database user and should be granted the following privileges:

    • BACKUP ADMIN

    • DATABASE BACKUP ADMIN

    • CATALOG READ

  • Backup operator database user and should be granted the following privileges:

    • BACKUP OPERATOR

    • CATALOG READ

Backup and restore features

The following features are available for backups and restores with the NetBackup web UI:

  • Backups are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. Administrators can schedule automatic, unattended backups for instances on local or remote hosts across the network.

  • NetBackup supports the backup of databases and logs.

  • Backup schedules for full, differential, cumulative incremental, or log backups.

  • Manual backups.

  • Support for high availability (HA) environments, including SAP HANA clusters.

  • Ability to use multiple streams during a backup.

  • Configure tuning options that can improve the performance of backups.

Stream-based backups and restores

Stream-based backup and restore of SAP HANA objects.

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