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backup jobs configuration

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Hi,

I want to asked about backup job.
whether I have to using "enable application-aware processing" for SAP application server?

should I using pre-freeze and post-thaw too?

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Hello mirfan,

Application-aware processing will allow you to use pre/post freeze scripts along with the image-level backup of virtual machine, good overview of possible options from the best practice guide. In addition to that I'd recommend to check the Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA as that might be quite handy when we talk about application processing. Very detailed blog post series 3 steps to protect your SAP HANA database if you are interested. Cheers!
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Hi Dima

Thanks for reply.
I have check in the veeam documentation pre/post freeze is used only with hana database server. CMIIW
just want to make sure there is no need pre/post freeze script on the SAP applicaton server.

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Hello,

Could you please clarify which database are you running on the server you're going to back up?

Probably, it would make sense to leverage the pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts in order to stop the SAP system before backup and start it once the job is completed. At least it is one of prerequisites mentioned in this article.

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Hi,

we have
- SAP server application
- SAP server with Hana database
- SAP server with sybase

as I know pre-freeze and post-thaw are used for servers that use the hana database.
is it any pre-freeze and post-thaw for SAP application server and SAP server with sybase? please share

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I have no examples of scripts for SAP server or Sybase but the basic idea is to bring application data into consistent state prior backup. I guess that "quiesce database" command should be used in the scripts for Sybase and "release" tag should be specified in the post-thaw script to resume database activity.

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Hi Petr,

I have create using quiesce database hold and release.
but have not try it yet.

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