Dear Del, About a year ago you explained why TDP for HANA backup versioning is no longer working (see your mail down below), do you know if SAP has fixed this issue by now? I'm still struggling with this in our environment. The only documentation I can find on the IBM site about this issue is IT11810. It contains two options:
1) Create a new domain and use the retver option, which could cause all you backups to expire when no backup is made during that period (so not acceptable for us). 2) Remove obsolete backup manually through SAP Studio. When we use option 2, the backups seem to be removed from SAP, but I still see the archive objects in TSM... Is this circumvention maybe documented somewhere in more detail? Thank you very much for your help in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering Eric, This "design change" is a "change" from the Data Protection for ERP perspective, but not from the Data Protection for ERP for SAP HANA perspective, which has always worked this way. This design "change" is a result of a current limitation in the SAP HANA BACKINT API and is expected to be temporary. This backup API streams the backup data to the DP for SAP HANA client via named pipes and today it gives no indication whether the data stream was complete or the pipe was closed prematurely due to some error. We don't want to expire a prior/older backup version unless we know we have a successful new backup version so we do not currently offer expiration of backups based on version limit. However, we do plan to provide that capability once SAP implements the enhancement to the backup API we have requested (to indicate whether or not all the data was streamed successfully). SAP did indicate they plan to provide that enhancement but we do not yet have a target date for that. Thank you, Del ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************
