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Advanced data protection for SAP HANA using Lenovo and Veeam

SAP landscapes with the various applications (ERP, CRM, SCM, etc.) contain business critical or mission critical data, with the cornerstone being the SAP HANA database. This document outlines the architecture & best practices of SAP HANA Backup/Restore solutions built around Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and DE/DM Series enterprise storage systems in conjunction with Veeam software. It outlines practical architectures to implement data protection measures for production, disaster recovery, development and testing for an SAP landscape, leading to increased uptime of the applications and meeting necessary RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective) requirements better.