After an SAP HANA instance is registered, you can view the installation status of
the Hybrid Backup Recovery (HBR) client for Elastic Compute Service (ECS) on each
node of the SAP HANA instance. You must make sure that an HBR client is installed
on each node that you want to back up. After the HBR client is installed, you can
upgrade, reinstall, uninstall, or delete the HBR client based on your business requirements.
You can upgrade multiple HBR clients at the same time.
Background information
- If the version of an HBR client for ECS is outdated, you can upgrade the client to
the latest version.
- If an HBR client for ECS fails to be activated or upgraded, you must uninstall the
client and install it again.
- If you no longer need the backup data in an HBR client for ECS, you can delete the
HBR client.
Manage an HBR client
- Log on to the HBR console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- In the top navigation bar, select the region where the SAP HANA instance that you
want to back up resides.
- Click the SAP HANA Instances tab.
- Find the SAP HANA instance that you want to manage, and choose in the Actions column.
- On the SAP HANA Instance Details page, click the SAP HANA Nodes tab. On the tab that appears, view the installation status of the HBR client for
ECS on each node. If the node status is Activated, an HBR client is installed. You can perform the following operations on an HBR client:
- Upgrade an HBR client
To upgrade an HBR client on a node, find the node and click Upgrade in the Client Type column.
Before you upgrade the HBR client, you must disable the backup feature of SAP HANA.
For more information, see SAP Note 2009486.
- Reinstall an HBR client
To reinstall an HBR client on a node, choose in the Actions column of the node. After the client is uninstalled, choose in the Actions column of the node.
- Uninstall an HBR client
To uninstall an HBR client from a node, choose in the Actions column of the node.
- Delete an HBR client
To delete an HBR client from a node and delete the node from the instance, click Delete in the Actions column of the node.
Notice After you delete an HBR client from an SAP HANA node, the existing backup data is
still retained.
To delete the SAP HANA instance after the HBR client is deleted, perform the following
steps:
- On the SAP HANA Backup tab, click the SAP HANA Instances tab.
- Find the SAP HANA instance that you want to delete, choose .
Notice After you delete an SAP HANA instance, the existing backup data is also deleted and
the running backup and restore jobs fail to be completed. Before you delete the SAP
HANA instance, make sure that you no longer need the data in the HBR client of the
instance and no backup or restore jobs are running for the instance. To delete an
SAP HANA instance, you must enter the security identifier (SID) of the instance. The
SID is three characters in length and starts with a letter. For more information,
see
How to find sid user and instance number of HANA db?
Upgrade multiple HBR clients at the same time
- Log on to the HBR console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- In the top navigation bar, select the region where the SAP HANA instance that you
want to back up resides.
- Click Update HANA Clients.
- In the Update HANA Clients panel, select the clients that you want to upgrade and click OK.
- In the dialog box that appears, confirm the latest version to which you want to upgrade
your HANA clients and the client list. Click OK.
The Client Status changes to Upgrading. After the upgrade, the HANA clients are in the latest version and the Activated state.