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Backup & Disaster Recovery

Backup and Disaster Recovery tiered recovery flow: criticality tiers feed a backup topology split into tenant scope and source-system scope, which feeds a timed recovery test, ending in restore or rebuild plus executive communication — architecture diagram for Backup & Disaster Recovery, Analytics Legends Academy module M086

As of 2026-10-04

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When a Datasphere or BDC tenant goes dark during month-end close, the CFO doesn't want a feature list — they want an RTO number and a name attached to it. This module gives consultants the three decisions that make backup and disaster recovery client-credible: which data tier gets which recovery window, what a tenant backup topology actually covers versus what it silently excludes, and how to write the executive gap message when a 90-minute SLA meets a two-hour-old backup. A senior who can run a live recovery simulation before go-live is worth a materially higher day rate than one who routes the question to Basis.

What you will learn

  • Classify a client's Datasphere and BDC data assets into criticality tiers and derive a corresponding RTO and RPO target for each tier
  • Design a BDC tenant backup topology that separates tenant scope from source-system scope, documents the recovery sequence, and satisfies a stated SLA
  • Execute a simulated partial-tenant recovery walkthrough, identify which data products breach the RTO window, and write the executive gap communication
  • Produce a one-page DR runbook containing backup schedule, recovery sequence, owner map, and acceptance criteria that a handover consultant can follow without verbal briefing

Module overview

When SAP Datasphere or SAP Business Data Cloud goes down, every downstream data product stops — the SAC stories go blank, the Joule assistant has nothing to reason over, the finance close dashboard the CFO checks every morning shows yesterday's numbers or no numbers at all. This module turns backup and disaster recovery from an infrastructure afterthought, something a consultant waves at Basis, into a client-facing operating discipline: the ability to answer, with precision and confidence, a CDO's question — "what happens to our analytic reports if the Datasphere tenant is unavailable for four hours, and what do we lose if it happens during month-end close?"

Prerequisites

  • Intermediate hands-on experience on SAP analytics projects
  • Review core concepts first: C038, C041, C040

Outcomes

  • Work through a realistic scenario: A pan-European financial-services group is migrating month-end close and regulatory reporting into SAP Datasphere and BDC.
  • Recognize and avoid the anti-pattern: Treating the tenant backup as if it also protects the source system — Recovery restores Datasphere spaces that point at S/4HANA or BTP services nobody backed up.
  • Apply the module's core decision: How many criticality tiers to define — choose Three tiers (real-time exposure, daily operational, historical reference).
  • Track mastery with the KPI: Backup-to-RTO compliance (target: 100% of Tier 1 assets recoverable inside their stated RTO).

Full module available to members. The full module adds: the decision framework · the end-to-end scenario walkthrough · the KPI scorecard · the anti-patterns · the code blocks · the knowledge check · the diagrams.

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