Overview
This section provides information to help you configure your SAP HANA database to work with Backint. It also provides information about the backup storage paths and guidelines to help you perform backup and restore operations.
Topics
Where is the configuration file?
After Backint setup is done, the configuration file is located in the following path:
/hana/shared/$SAPSYSTEMNAME/global/hdb/opt/conf/emory.cfg
Retention Policies
Beginning with SAP HANA 2 SPS 03, you can use SAP HANA Cockpit to set the retention policies for your SAP HANA database backups. Based on your retention policies, SAP HANA Cockpit can automatically trigger jobs to delete old backups from catalogs, as well as the physical backups. This process also automatically deletes backup files stored in your Amazon S3 buckets. For more information, see “Retention Policy” under Backup Configuration Settings in the SAP HANA Administration with SAP HANA Cockpit Guide.
Where are your backups stored?
Your backups will be stored in the target bucket following these formatting:
<SAP_SID>/<DB>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<backup_file_name>.<backup_id>
All backup files from the same backup will have the exact same suffix. These can help you to identify the objects of a specific backup.
Example:
HDB/SYSTEMDB/2020/05/01/COMPLETE_DATA_BACKUP_databackup_0_1.1589970887300