Backup and Restore

You need to back up your system landscape regularly, to ensure that you can restore and recover it in case of failure.

The backup and restore strategy for SAP Plant Connectivity consists of two parts:

  • Backup and restore coverage for each component (see table below)

  • Cross-system data dependencies and handling

The backup and restore strategy for your system landscape should not only consider SAP systems but should also be embedded in overall business requirements and incorporate your company’s entire process flow.

In addition, the backup and restore strategy must cover disaster recovery processes, such as the loss of a data center through fire. It is most important in this context that you ensure that backup devices are not lost together with normal data storage (separation of storage locations).

The following table lists the components used by SAP Plant Connectivity and how to back them up.

Component

Data to Be Backed Up

Backup Method/ Tool

Recommended Backup Frequency

SAP Plant Connectivity

Configuration of data sources, destinations and agent instances

Backup/Restore functionality

After significant changes; regular automatic backups can be configured

Backups can be created in the following ways:

  • Automatically without user interaction during upgrades of PCo

  • Manually at any time by choosing Start of the navigation pathPlant Connectivity Next navigation step Create BackupEnd of the navigation path from the menu in the Management Console

  • Automatically, following a customer-defined schedule. You can configure automatic backups by choosing Start of the navigation pathPlant Connectivity Next navigation step Set Up Automatic BackupEnd of the navigation path from the menu.

There are two types of backup files:

  • Password-protected backup files, which can be freely moved from one machine to another

  • Local backup files, which are valid only for the local machine.

The password-protected backup files are created manually from the Management Console. The local backup files are created automatically after an upgrade or during automatic backups. From the Management Console, you can restore your configuration from both backup types.

You can also use the password-protected backup files of the backup and restore functionality to distribute your configuration from one machine to other machines (roll out). Note that in this case the existing configuration on the target computer is completely replaced with the configuration from the backup file.