Modern Storage Backups for SAP Content Server
MaxBack enables Veeam and Azure Backup to protect terabyte-scale Content Server databases on Windows — application-consistent VM snapshots instead of hour-long streaming backups.
The Challenge
Content Server holds active business documents — engineering drawings, production specs, quality records — referenced daily from SAP
Too Big for Traditional Backup
Content Server databases grow into the terabyte range as documents accumulate over years of active use. Streaming backups take hours to create and hours to restore — unacceptable recovery times for a system that supports daily business processes.
Storage Snapshots Don't Know About MaxDB
Veeam and Azure Backup can snapshot the VM in seconds regardless of database size. But without a VSS Writer, the snapshot is crash-consistent — after restore, the document catalog in MaxDB may be inconsistent with stored documents.
On-Premise on Windows — Even When SAP Moves On
SAP ERP and S/4HANA increasingly run hosted on Linux. But Content Server stays on-premise on Windows, connected via ArchiveLink. It still needs a backup strategy that fits the local Windows infrastructure.
Restore Must Be Synchronized with SAP
Documents in Content Server are referenced from ERP or S/4HANA. Restoring Content Server to a different point in time means broken references — documents missing or out of version. Synchronized backup and restore with the application server is essential.
How MaxBack Solves This
MaxBack bridges SAP Content Server's MaxDB and your existing VM backup infrastructure
Storage-Speed Backups for Terabyte Databases
MaxBack makes VM snapshots application-consistent for MaxDB. Veeam or Azure Backup snapshot a 2TB Content Server database just as fast as a 50GB one — the storage does the work, MaxBack ensures consistency.
Fits Your Existing Infrastructure
No dedicated backup agents for MaxDB. Content Server joins your existing Veeam or Azure Backup policies — same scheduling, same retention, same monitoring. Synchronize with SAP application server backups using the same backup schedule.
Autorecovery After VM Restore
Restore the Content Server VM from backup. MaxBack autorecovery detects the restore and recovers the database to a consistent state — ready for start or point-in-time log recovery.
Setup in Three Commands
Connect MaxBack to the Content Server's MaxDB instance, install the license, and apply a configuration set. Your existing VM backup jobs will produce application-consistent snapshots of the document database.
- Application-consistent snapshots at any database size
- Same backup infrastructure as your other VMs
- Automatic log management
- Autorecovery for VM restore scenarios
maxback.vssclient db connect
maxback.vssclient license install -f license.lic
maxback.vssclient options configset -s Veeam
Protect Your Content Server Documents
Enable your existing backup infrastructure to protect terabyte-scale Content Server databases — with storage-speed backup and recovery