AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA

AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA (AWS Backint agent) is an SAP-certified backup and restore application for SAP HANA workloads running on Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud. AWS Backint agent runs as a standalone application that integrates with your existing workflows to back up your SAP HANA database to Amazon S3 and AWS Backup. AWS Backint agent restores SAP HANA workloads using SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio, and SQL commands. AWS 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 AWS Backup.

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

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

Topics

• How AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA works
• Billing
• Supported operating systems
• Supported databases
• Supported Regions
• Backup and restore SAP HANA workloads to Amazon S3
• AWS Backup
• Verify the signature of the AWS Backint agent and installer for SAP HANA
• Troubleshoot AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA
• Version history

How AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA works

You can deploy the AWS Backint agent to your SAP HANA instances from the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) console. From the AWS SSM console, an AWS 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 AWS Backup.

AWS 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 AWS Backup with AWS Backint agent, see the following documentation.

• AWS Backup for AWS Backint agent

• AWS Systems Manager for SAP

• AWS Backup

Billing

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

• Amazon S3 pricing

• AWS Backup pricing

Supported operating systems

AWS Backint agent is supported on the following operating systems:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP

Supported databases

AWS Backint agent supports the following databases:

• SAP HANA 1.0 SP12 (single node and multi node)

• SAP HANA 2.0 and later (single node and multi node)

Supported Regions

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

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