PowerProtect Data Manager 19.15 SAP HANA User Guide

Integrate the SAP HANA backup program

The SAP HANA application agent installation places the hdbbackint program in the /opt/dpsapps/dbappagent/bin directory. However, SAP HANA requires the program to be accessible from the /hana/shared/<SID>/global/hdb/opt directory.

PowerProtect Data Manager automatically creates the required symbolic link (if it is not present) to the hdbbackint program under the /hana/shared/<SID>/global/hdb/opt directory. This symbolic link creation occurs when you add any assets of a given SID (system ID of the SAP HANA system) to a protection policy and then auto-configuration is triggered.

You can ensure that the symbolic link has been created by going to the /hana/shared/<SID>/global/hdb/opt directory and running the ls -l hdbbackint command.

If the protection policy creation fails due to failure of the symbolic link creation, you must complete the following steps to manually create the symbolic link to the hdbbackint program and then trigger the auto-configuration.

1. Run the ln -s command to create the symbolic link. For example:

   ln -s /opt/dpsapps/dbappagent/bin/hdbbackint /hana/shared/S01/global/hdb/opt/hdbbackint

2. Use one of the following methods to trigger the auto-configuration:

   • Click the set lockbox option on the failed protection policy.
   • Add a new asset with the same SID to the failed protection policy.
   • Re-create the protection policy from scratch.

If you delete the symbolic link for some reason, you must re-create the symbolic link by either of the following methods:

• Run the preceding step 1 to manually create the symbolic link.
• Click the set lockbox option on the protection policy under which the specific SID assets are managed.

Ensure that the hdbbackint file has the required executable permissions for the operating system user <SID>adm to run the program, where <SID> is the system ID of the SAP HANA system.