A company is running an SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system on an SAP HANA database that is 10 TB in size. The company is receiving notifications about long-running database backups every day.

Question

Options

• AEnsure that AWS Backint agent is configured to send the backups to an Amazon S3 bucket over
• BCheck the UploadChannelSize parameter for AWS Backint agent. Increase this value in the aws-
• CCheck the MaximumConcurrentFilesForRestore parameter for AWS Backint agent. Increase the
• DEnsure that the backups are compressed. If necessary, configure AWS Backint agent to compress

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  77% (24)
• C
  13% (4)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA uses parallel upload channels to stream backup data to Amazon S3. The UploadChannelSize parameter controls how many parallel channels are used during the backup upload. For a 10 TB database, if this value is too low, the backup becomes serialized or insufficiently parallelized, causing long runtimes. Increasing UploadChannelSize allows more data to be transferred concurrently to S3, directly improving backup throughput and reducing duration. The MaximumConcurrentFilesForRestore parameter (C) governs restore parallelism, not backup speed, so changing it would have no effect on the problem. Compression (D) reduces the volume of data uploaded but adds CPU overhead and the primary bottleneck for a 10 TB backup is typically upload throughput, not data size alone. Routing backups over a VPC endpoint (A) reduces data transfer costs and keeps traffic off the internet but does not inherently increase upload throughput to a degree that resolves long backup windows.

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