According to the official SAP HANA Cloud documentation, the default retention period for complete data backups is 14 days. This policy ensures that recent recovery points are available for restoration while managing storage consumption. This setting applies to both automatic and manual backups unless explicitly changed by an administrator. The system automatically deletes backups older than this 14-day period to free up storage space.

A. 3 weeks: This is not the default retention period; it would require manual configuration to extend the duration to 21 days.

C. 1 week: This is shorter than the standard default retention period of 14 days set for SAP HANA Cloud backups.

D. 4 weeks: This is a longer retention period than the default and would need to be explicitly configured by an administrator.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Database Administration Guide: In the section "Managing Backups in SAP HANA Cloud

" the documentation states

"By default

complete data backups are retained for 14 days." (Source: SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Database Administration Guide > Managing Backups in SAP HANA Cloud)

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP HANA Cloud Backup and Recovery: This guide reinforces the default policy. In the "Backup Retention" section

it specifies

"The default retention period for backups is 14 days. Backups older than 14 days are automatically deleted." (Source: SAP HANA Cloud Backup and Recovery > Backup Retention)