Problems with Hana backup

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Dear Experts,

I am facing quite a funny situation over here. Couldn't find anything on the launchpad, neither on Google, so I need to ask you...

I need to backup a Hana database. My colleagues have been configuring some backint, but working or not, I don't need it right now. I just need to take a simple database backup to the local disk. I am trying to do this from hdbsql.

This is Hana 1.0 SPS 12, MDC, high isolation mode and I am connecting to the SYSTEMDB:

hdbsql SYSTEMDB=> BACKUP DATA FOR <SID> USING FILE ('COMPLETE')
* 447: backup could not be completed: [110090] Error while backing up backup catalog, [110507] Backint exited with exit code 1 instead of 0. console output: No additional Information was received SQLSTATE: HY000

WHY is it giving me a backint error, when I don't care about backint ???
WHY is the backup being reported as failed, when I can see that files have been created on OS level ???

155648 Apr 4 12:13 COMPLETE_databackup_0_1
39543906304 Apr 4 12:13 COMPLETE_databackup_2_1

The situation is absolutely the same, if I try to perform the backup from the tenant itself. I even tried when I login as SAPABAP1, and not as SYSTEM - it's exactly the same situation!

I was checking global.ini and other stuff. There is an option whether to perform log backups by backint or not, but NOTHING for data !!!

When I try to perform a backup from Hana Studio, after backing up the index server, it merely shows an empty white dialog box, with only the left half of a red sign 😄 I can try to attach a screenshot, it looks really beautiful 🙂

High quality software, hmmm ??????

[HakanHaslaman]

If we check the returned error codes, backint expect the correct configuration, which is not the case here (SAP Note#2538877).
In your issue, you need to check where still backint parameters are configured and change it to file backup.

Sure, we can tell you more, if we can see the backup.log, backint.log and the nameserver trace file.