SAP on Azure - Backup and Restore

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 1 minute and 15 seconds

Students: 227

Rating: 5/5

SAP on Azure - Backup and Restore takes a looks at how to backup and restore the main elements of an SAP workload: virtual machines and databases. This lesson focuses on data protection from an operational, maintenance, and compliance perspective and complements the high availability and disaster recovery lesson. Azure infrastructure gives you the freedom to implement various backup methods, like ones native to your particular brand of database engine. It also has built-in backup functionality designed to work with a wide range of data sources.

Microsoft Azure Backup Service has native support for virtual machines, SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Azure Files. This lesson introduces Azure's backup service and how it can be applied to SAP workloads.

Learning Objectives

Get a foundational understanding of Azure Backup
Learn how to configure Azure Backup Service for natively supported data sources
Learn how to use Azure Backup Service with Oracle, a non-natively supported data source

Intended Audience

Anyone looking to understand and implement the backup and restore capabilities for their SAP workloads on Azure.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of Azure and SAP. Before taking this lesson, it is recommended that you take the Designing and Building a HADR for SAP Workloads on Azure lesson first.