One of the cornerstones of Pure Storage design principles is simplicity. This is clearly evident in how easy it is to snapshot/clone databases on a Pure Storage Array. This document was written to help storage administrators, SAP system administrators, and data centerarchitects find out more about this feature for a very common use case – backup and recovery of adatabase instance. The database in this case is SAP HANA. This paper covers the necessary steps totake a snapshot of a SAP HANA instance for backup purposes. It also explains how to restore thedatabase from the snapshot.