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Amazon Backint Agent for SAP HANA

Amazon Backint Agent for SAP HANA (Amazon Backint agent) is an SAP-certified backup and restore application for SAP HANA workloads running on Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud. Amazon Backint agent runs as a standalone application that integrates with your existing workflows to back up your SAP HANA database to Amazon S3 and Amazon Backup. Amazon Backint agent restores SAP HANA workloads using SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio, and SQL commands. Amazon Backint agent supports full, incremental, and differential backup of SAP HANA databases. Additionally, you can back up log files and catalogs to Amazon S3 and Amazon Backup.

Amazon Backint agent runs on an SAP HANA database server, where backups and catalogs are transferred from the SAP HANA database to Amazon Backint agent. Based on the configurations in your agent file, Amazon Backint agent stores your files in Amazon S3 or Amazon Backup. To restore your SAP HANA database server, SAP HANA reads the stored catalog files using Amazon Backint agent. It then initiates a request to restore the required files.

If you want to deploy an SAP HANA database application with Amazon Backint agent, you can use Amazon Launch Wizard for SAP, a service that guides you through the sizing, configuration, and deployment of SAP applications on Amazon, and follows Amazon cloud application best practices.

How Amazon Backint Agent for SAP HANA works

You can deploy the Amazon Backint agent to your SAP HANA instances from the Amazon Systems Manager (SSM) console. From the Amazon SSM console, an Amazon SSM document is executed on the instances to install the agent. You provide the configuration information in the document as parameters. You can also download and manually install and configure the agent. When the agent is installed, you can back up your SAP HANA database to Amazon S3 or Amazon Backup.

Amazon Backint agent increases scalability through parallel processing of backup and restore processes, providing maximum throughput and reducing backup Recovery Time Objective (RTO) during recovery.

To use Amazon Backup with Amazon Backint agent, see the following documentation.

Billing

Amazon Backint agent is a free service. You pay for only the underlying Amazon services that you use, for example Amazon S3 or Amazon Backup. See the following references for more information.

Supported operating systems

Amazon Backint agent is supported on the following operating systems:

Supported databases

Amazon Backint agent supports the following databases:

Supported Regions

Amazon Backint agent is available in all commercial Regions, as well as in China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), and GovCloud.

Amazon Backint agent with storage on Amazon Backup is available in all commercial Regions.