SAP Disaster Recovery

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

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...…

Combat Chaos with a Lock-Down Security Policy in 12 Key Areas of Your SAP Environment

Security policies and procedures should be a central concern of all employees of an organization. Review important areas of the SAP ERP system that has to be driven by effective security policies. Key Concept A security policy is a formal statement of principles, rules, goals, and objectives of an organization aimed at securing the assets...…

Protect Your SAP HANA Investment with HA and DR Options

Implementing an SAP HANA system involves more than just selecting a standalone server. Organizations must also consider the different options available in terms of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Depending on the organization’s service level requirements, multiple servers, storage devices, backup devices, and network devices might be required. This article gives an overview...…

A Step-by-Step Configuration Guide for Disaster Recovery

Follow these steps outlined by Muhammad Abdul Jamil to configure a disaster recovery server in the form of a standby database of the SAP production server in your SAP landscape. You then can go to the standby database if your primary database goes down. Key Concept When companies buy SAP ERP with Oracle they can...…

No, Your SAP HANA-Based Data Center Is Not as Simple as a Toaster

Learn how to set up business continuity in SAP HANA with high availability, disaster recovery, and backup/restore concepts. This overview shows the challenges of managing SAP HANA-based applications in the data center. Key Concept In thinking about high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) in SAP HANA, you need to distinguish between planned and unplanned...…

The 15 Most Overlooked Items in Planning for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

In recovering from a disaster, you are rebuilding more than a system: you are rebuilding your business and everything it stands for. No detail is too large or too small to deserve your company’s full attention when developing recovery and availability strategies. Based on the author’s own experiences in the trenches, this article helps you...…

• SAP HANA

Considerations for Disaster Recovery and Automated Failover Clusters for SAP HANA Infrastructures

Data corruption, component failures, and power outages are just a few examples of major issues that IT departments must be prepared for at any given moment. In the event of system downtime, organizations must have a proper disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) strategy in place to minimize the business impact. But how can…

Technical Audit Scoping of an SAP HANA System: The Comprehensive Audit Questionnaire

Review a series of 30 questions to use as a checklist to form the basis for identifying relevant areas of audit concerns for an SAP HANA review. This questionnaire is not exhaustive and is only designed to be used as a starting point to evaluate the audit requirements in a specific SAP HANA landscape. Key...…

Get the Most Out of SAPSprint for Server-Based Printing in Microsoft Windows

SAPSprint is the latest service for server-based printing on Windows. Learn how to install and configure this service with its default options. Drill down into the technical implementation to learn how to manage print requests, restart print processes, configure front-end printing, and include barcodes. Key Concept Processing in SAPSprint means generating print data via the...…