Portal Backup and Restore Strategy 

Carefully develop your backup-and-restore strategy for the portal infrastructure in order to achieve a consistent state upon recovery. The strategy may involve backup at the component level, or a full backup of the entire system.

The portal infrastructures differ for customers; therefore performing a full backup is a comprehensible solution. This solution can easily restore portal components and enable the portal to recover from a complete system loss.

In addition, portal components and their configurations are interdependent, and need to be backed up together.

Software and Configuration Data

All operations of the portal that use some type of storage for saving business information must be considered for backup. The backup type to be defined for individual components depends on the type of data storage.

Data, or information stored in different storage types can be regenerated by the component itself. Therefore, for components that use only database-like storage, database backup is sufficient, but in some system landscapes, a component can use multiple storage types for storing business information. To address all possible problems, sources of the problem must be identified.

In most cases, backing up just the database shared by the portal and SAP Web Application Server is sufficient. See Backup and Recovery of the SAP Web Application Server (Java) for detailed information about online backup and restore of the database for the portal.