PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 SAP HANA Agent User Guide

Tier the PowerProtect Data Manager backups from DD to the cloud

Once you add the SAP HANA database assets to a protection policy that contains a cloud tier stage, you can perform tiering of these assets by using the PowerProtect Data Manager UI.

1. Log in to PowerProtect Data Manager with administrator credentials.
2. Select Infrastructure > Assets > SAP HANA Databases.
3. On the Type Assets page, select the asset, and then click View Copies.
4. Select the DD where the PowerProtect Data Manager backups for SAP HANA reside, and then select Full protection copy which is older than 2 weeks.
5. Click Tier to tier the backups.

   A new job is created, which you can view under the Jobs tab after the job completes. When you monitor the cloud tier progress on backup copies for the asset job, the status remains in the running state until data movement occurs from the DD.

6. Log in to the DD system, and obtain the storage unit details by running the command data-movement policy show. For example:

   # data-movement policy show
   Mtree                                     Target(Tier/Unit Name) Policy      Value
   ----------------------------------------- ---------------------- ----------- -------
   /data/col1/rman137-blrv136g140-840dd      Cloud/ecs-unit         app-managed enabled
   /data/col1/rman134-copy-blrv136g138-61900 Cloud/ecs-unit         app-managed enabled
   /data/col1/rman-11-blrv136h010-7014f      Cloud/ecs-unit         app-managed enabled

7. Run the data-movement start mtrees command for the particular MTree. For example:

   # data-movement start mtrees /data/col1/rman137-blrv136g140-840dd

   After successful data movement to the cloud, the cloud tier job completes. At some point on the Assets > View Copies page, the Location field changes to Cloud.

   The DDOS Administration Guide provides more details about the cloud tier data movement.