Backup and Recovery Solutions
The basics of any high-availability configuration, regardless of its uptime commitments and availability ratings, include a solid backup and recovery solution. More than any other precaution, being able to recover data from a loss is critical to the survival of a business. Recovering from a disaster is of even greater importance than automated failover solutions. Very few companies survive long-term if unprepared when a real disaster strikes. For this reason, the backup and recovery concepts are presented first in this chapter.
There are several ways to store data for recovery purposes. They all involve making a copy of the production SAP database server's disk volumes, and they all complement each other:
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