[Veritas-bu] SAP System backup ?'s

Hello All,

I have been tasked with the backup and restore of our companies SAP server environment.

This environment consists of VMWare ESXi servers hosting 3 VM?s which have all the SAP ?stuff? installed on them.

My question is this.

The company that has master minded this backup scenario has called for cumulative backup?s every 3 hours to disk and once on Sunday a full cold backup to disk then eventually to tape.

They want to shutdown all VM OS?s to do this full system backup.

It?s my opinion that this seems excessive and a bit risky having the production SAP servers being shutdown and restated each week by mercy of a background script. Not to mention it doesn?t seem right to not rely on the proven retore-abilty that is inherent with VMWare.

Can anyone give me any feedback on why someone would do this or any possible ammo I can come to the table with to try and sway their decision?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Regards,

John Keating

Information Technology

Tachi-S Engineering USA Inc.

O - 248-615-6058

C - 248-613-3283

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