SAP data protection, SAP high availability, and SAP disaster recovery. LifeKeeper for SAP was the first commercially available clustering solution for SAP on Linux and continues to be the leader in both the breadth and depth of SAP protection with the latest version of LifeKeeper supporting SAP R/3 4.6C, SAP R/3 4.7, SAP NetWeaver 2004, and SAP NetWeaver 2004s).

SAP NetWeaver and earlier versions have no native method to provide protection of SAP data. The databases the SAP use to store its data provide native tools that can be difficult to manage and many times do not meet all of your SAP data protection requirements. The SteelEye Protection Suite for SAP includes SteelEye Data Replication, which provides the "3 R's of SAP Data Protection: Replicate, Rewind and Recover"

Replicate

SteelEye Data Replication is the real-time synchronous or asynchronous data replication engine that assures your SAP data is safely replicated to one or more targets across a LAN or WAN. SAP file systems (which contain SAP profiles, executables, etc.), the database data files, log files, and archive log files can all be replicated, guaranteeing you the highest level of recoverability.

Rewind

SteelEye Data Replication provides true CDP functionality as defined by SNIA, including any point in time rewind on the target system. Using the integrated Data Recovery Wizard, administrators have the ability to easily rewind the SAP file systems and database to any point in time, providing another level of data protection in the event of file system or database corruption, virus outbreak, user error, etc.

SAP Recovery

The SAP data recovery process can be completely automated, as is the case in LifeKeeper HA clusters, or can be triggered in manual fashion as is often the case in LifeKeeper Disaster Recovery configurations. Either way, SAP recovery takes just a few minutes and involves a very simple process where LifeKeeper unlocks the target drives and starts the database and SAP. When you are ready to bring the original SAP server back into service, the switchback process involves a simple push of a button to initiate the recovery.