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SB-3965: Backup and Recovery for SAP HANA

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Use NetApp ONTAP storage, Snapshot technology, and SnapCenter software to back up and restore SAP HANA databases of any size in seconds without affecting production performance.

The challenge

With SAP HANA backup and restore operations, your organization faces the following
challenges:
• Long backup operations with performance degradation on production SAP systems
• Unacceptable system downtime due to long restore and recovery operations
• Shrinking backup windows because of the criticality of the applications
• The need for a flexible solution to mitigate logical corruption

The Solution

With NetApp® storage solutions that run NetApp ONTAP® data management software,
in combination with NetApp SnapCenter® data protection software, you can meet
all those challenges. And with the NetApp Snapshot™ technology that is included in
ONTAP software, you can create backups or execute restore operations of any size
dataset in a matter of seconds. SAP HANA supports the use of storage-based Snapshot
copies as a valid backup operation.