General Question About SAP HANA plugin for VBR

[sgarga]

Hello everyone.

We are on search of a buckup plan for the SAP HANA database we have (hosting on a EC2 instance at AWS). After i read the docs for the plugin for SAP HANA i have 3 questions.

We want to store the backup files to a S3 bucket, but from the docs i have read that you cant do that. I understand correct? (Veeam Plug-ins do not support backup operations targeted directly to object storage repositories.)
There is a other way to add the S3 on VBR and store there the backups from the SAP HANA (add the s3 like a scale-out repo?)?
The last one, i make the conclusion that u cant manage the retantion period on the SAP HANA backup jobs like u can on a simple VM backup job from the VBR but only from SAP HANA tools (docs). That is right?

if u have any other suggestion or questions please fill free to ask.

Best Regards,
SG

[Andreas Neufert]

Starting from v13 we will support direct backup to S3. To avoid load on the hana server you might want to use the indirect mode where you use a "proxy" to interact with the S3 target instead of the Hana server. The backups are written in both ways only to the S3 storage.

In VBR today with v12.x you can create a Scale-Ou-Backup repository on a regular storage (including NFS/SMB) and copy all data to object storage. You can set it up in a way that all backups older than x days are only stored in S3. Think about it like a cache before writing to S3.

In the managed mode, we take care about the retention.
In the stand alone plug-in mode, the backup admin or external backup application (like SAP cockpit) need to handle the retention and delete older backups.