Stopping service charges

To avoid unnecessary charges for the backup and recovery service, perform the following tasks:

Task Instructions
  1. Stop charges for backup and recovery.

In HYCU for Google Cloud, unassign policies from all protected instances, applications, and buckets:

  • To unassign policies from instances:

    1. In the navigation pane, click  Instances.
    2. Select all instances with assigned policies, and then click  Policies.
    3. Click Unassign, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to unassign the policies from the selected instances.

  • To unassign policies from applications:

    1. In the navigation pane, click  Applications.
    2. Select all applications with assigned policies, and then click  Policies.
    3. Click Unassign, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to unassign the policies from the selected applications.

  • To unassign policies from buckets:

    1. In the navigation pane, click Buckets.
    2. Select all buckets with assigned policies, and then click  Policies.
    3. Click Unassign, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to unassign the policies from the selected buckets.

i Important  Only if multiple protection sets are available in your data protection environment. Make sure to follow these steps for each protection set separately.
  1. Stop charges for backup data storage.

  1. Manually mark restore points of all instances, applications, and buckets as expired. For instructions, see “Expiring backups manually”.

    i Important  Only if multiple protection sets are available in your data protection environment. Make sure to do this for each protection set separately.

  2. Only if SAP HANA application data was backed up using the Backint agent. Disable log backups and remove all existing log backups from the Google Cloud Storage buckets from the following location:

    <SAPHANAAppName>/usr/sap/
    <SAPHANAAppName>    /SYS/global/
    hdb/backint/<DatabaseName>

    For details on how to disable log backups, see SAP HANA documentation.

  3. Remove all backup data created by HYCU for Google Cloud from Google Cloud (delete all automatically or manually created targets that contain only backup data, and delete all backup data that is stored on automatically or manually created targets that contain also other kind of data).

    For the target naming conventions, see “Appendix A: Objects created by the service”. For instructions on how to delete targets and remove backup data from targets, see Google Cloud documentation.

  4. Remove all snapshots created by HYCU for Google Cloud from Google Cloud.

    For the snapshot naming conventions, see “Appendix A: Objects created by the service”. For instructions on how to remove snapshots, see Google Cloud documentation.