Configuration for HANA BACKUP

There are lot of parameters with which you can configure for the Backup.

Navigate to BACKUP tile from HANA Cockpit. And click on Backup Configuration

Parameter Details:

  1. basepath_databackup

`File based backups are written to the above path in HANA DB. Default location is $(DIR_INSTANCE)/backup/data

$DIR_INSTANCE can be checked at OS level in environment variable echo $DIR_INSTANCE

2. basepath_logbackup

By default log backups are written to the above location in the above parameter. Log backups are written in $(DIR_INSTANCE)/backup/log

3. basepath_catalogbackup

By default catalog backups are written to the location $DIR_INSTANCE/backup/log 

You can change the location of the file based backups by using the above parameters.

4. include_configuration_backup

you can now backup the custom configuration parameters in the Backup. By default customer specific configuration is disabled. This parameter is only available from HANA 2.0 SPS 6 onwards.

5. log_mode

It determines whether log_segments should be backed up or not

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