SAP HANA Backup and Recovery using Pure Storage Snapshots

One of the cornerstones of Pure Storage® design principles is simplicity. This is clearly evident in how easy it is to snapshot/clone databases on a Pure Storage Array. This document will attempt to showcase this feature for a very common use case – backup and recovery of a database instance. The database in this case is SAP HANA®. We will go over the necessary steps to take a snapshot a SAP HANA® instance for backup purposes and how to restore the database from the snapshot.