SAP Disaster Recovery


What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster recovery is an organization’s method of regaining access to and functionality for its IT infrastructure following disruptive events, such as major equipment failure, natural disaster, cyberattack, or pandemic. It relies on the backup of data and computer processing capabilities at a remote location not affected by the disaster. In a disaster, the organization can restore data and computing functions to continue operations.

Disaster recovery focuses on IT systems supporting critical business functions instead of business continuity, which involves keeping all essential aspects of a business functioning despite significant disruptive events. Priorities and recovery time objectives should be developed during the business impact analysis. Technology recovery strategies should be designed to restore hardware, applications, and data in time to meet the business recovery needs.

What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster recovery is an organization’s method of regaining access to and functionality for its IT infrastructure following disruptive events, such as major equipment failure, natural disaster, cyberattack, or pandemic. It relies on the backup of data and computer processing capabilities at a remote location not affected by the disaster. In a disaster, the organization can restore data and computing functions to continue operations.

Disaster recovery focuses on IT systems supporting critical business functions instead of business continuity, which involves keeping all essential aspects of a business functioning despite significant disruptive events. Priorities and recovery time objectives should be developed during the business impact analysis. Technology recovery strategies should be designed to restore hardware, applications, and data in time to meet the business recovery needs.

What is SAP Disaster Recovery?

SAP offers standard and enhanced disaster recovery service for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), Neo environment. Data backups are stored at a disaster recovery site and contain all data stored in the SAP BTP’s data management and document services. According to SAP, any data not stored in these services cannot be recovered.

The SAP BTP Enhanced Disaster Recovery service provides asynchronous data replication to a remote disaster recovery region to improve the time for recovery. The service requires hardware setup and covers production applications running on SAP BTP in disaster recovery-enabled subaccounts. The setup requires configuration steps that the organization and the dedicated SAP team must perform in advance.

Further Resources for SAPinsiders:

Considerations for Disaster Recovery and Automated Failover Clusters for SAP HANA Infrastructures. In this SAPinsider Q&A, SUSE’s Peter Schinagl, Technical Architect, and Markus Gürtler, Technical Alliance Manager, answer questions regarding disaster recovery scenarios for SAP HANA infrastructure, automation solutions for failover, and system replication.

A Step-by-Step Configuration Guide for Disaster Recovery. In this article, Muhammad Abdul Jamil, SAP Basis Administrator at the Orient Group of Companies, provides a detailed step-by-step guide on setting up a standby database of the SAP production server for disaster recovery.

Other vendors offering SAP disaster recovery services: AWS, Commvault, Google Cloud, NetApp, and Syntax.

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  1. Sidestep Disasters with a Business Continuity Plan

    Published: 22/October/2009

    Reading time: 22 mins

    You need to have a plan in place if a risk assessment shows that the likelihood of an emergency event (e.g., severe storms or earthquakes) occurring is high. A business continuity plan allows an organization to minimize the consequences of a disaster and continue normal business functions afterward. Key Concept Business impact analysis looks at...…

  2. Spotlight: A Seasoned IT Executive Weighs in on Cloud Strategies, SAP System Security, and Disaster Recovery

    Published: 19/November/2013

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Rajeev Menon shares some of the knowledge he has gleaned about securing SAP systems, cloud computing, and disaster recovery design and implementation. Identifying the root cause of SAP performance problems is not always straightforward. Multiple SAP systems, federated databases, and increasingly complex business processes can make diagnosis considerably more challenging. It is important to analyze each...…

  3. Avoid Losing Valuable Sales and Customer Data by Using Backup and Recovery in Depth

    Published: 15/April/2010

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Find out why multiple, in-depth layers of recovery parameters are more effective than a single layer when backing up and recovering SAP CRM data, business processes, and event logs. Key Concept Backup and recovery in depth refers to the strategy of creating multiple layers of recovery parameters (rather than a single layer) to better back...…

  4. Prevent Data Disaster in Your SAP HANA System Landscape With Effective Backup and Restore Strategies

    Published: 01/October/2015

    Reading time: 23 mins

    Become acquainted with concepts, best practices, optimal settings, tools, and recommendations that are invaluable for SAP HANA database backup and restore operations. Key Concept An effective backup and restore strategy is vital to an organization because data and information are important assets of a business enterprise. Backup and restore activities ensure that an organization can...…

  5. Mastering the SAP HANA Backup and Restore Process

    Published: 14/September/2015

    Reading time: 29 mins

    When organizations implement SAP HANA, they need to devise a strategy to protect the data that the system manages in-memory. Depending on your SAP HANA use case, failure to protect this data can lead to significant monetary or productivity losses. One way to protect the data is through the implementation of a backup and restore...…

  6. Towards Zero Downtime for SAP HANA

    Published: 01/April/2017

    Reading time: 20 mins

    In this Q&A, technical architects Peter Schinagl and Markus Gürtler of SUSE answered questions on best practices for ensuring high availability and preparing disaster recovery scenarios. In the digital age, downtime is not an option. You are under pressure to supply more up-time in the data center to stay competitive and meet customer demands. Your…

  7. Q&A: What You Need to Know About Business Continuity Planning

    Published: 20/June/2011

    Reading time: 7 mins

    ManagementAre you thinking about creating a business continuity plan (BCP) to be prepared when disaster strikes? We spoke with Michael Wallace and Lawrence Webber, authors of The Disaster Recovery Handbook, to find out what you need to know about BCP. Business continuity planning (BCP) is an essential part of any company that needs to protect...…

  8. Prevent a Data Disaster with Backup, Restore, and Recovery Strategies

    Published: 25/September/2009

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Review some best practices that should be adopted when you plan and implement a strategy for data protection in an SAP CRM system landscape. Key Concept An effective backup, restore, and recovery strategy is vital to an organization because data is one of the building blocks of a business. Backup, restore, and recoveryactivities ensure that...…

  9. Data Protection Options for SAP Systems

    Published: 24/February/2014

    Reading time: 9 mins

    SAP Professional JournalIn recent years there have been a lot of advancements in data protection technologies and tools. When you are designing a data protection solution for an SAP environment to support business continuity, it is important to understand these new technologies and tools as well as their integration points. Key Concept A data protection...…

  10. Forestall Data Loss and Enforce Data Security with an Air-Tight Backup Policy

    Published: 07/February/2011

    Reading time: 13 mins

    Learn strategies that are invaluable for designing and developing a backup and restore procedure capable of safeguarding the data in your entire SAP system landscape while guaranteeing adequate data protection, security, and compliance with legal regulations. Key Concept A backup policy covers processes and procedures of making data (or database) copies with the intent of...…