Wilbert Jeuken wrote:
You will have the revision 93 database content running on HANA with 112 binaries. I don't see a problem with that right away. You might get issues when you subsequently want to update this 112 to another revision, as then you'll get the post processing for the new revision on your restored data.
This reads as if the recovered backup from a SPS 9 version would run with SPS 11 binaries in some sort of SPS 9-mode.
That's not the case.
In fact upon restart, SAP HANA finds that this is an old version of a SAP HANA database and performs the required catalog upgrade procedures automatically.
What it doesn't automatically do is the import of of the delivery units that come with each revision.
So these will need to be manually imported - just like the upgrade would do - in order to get all pieces correctly working on the new SPS.
It should be clear, that the recovery-and-upgrade approach is not meant to be the main upgrade procedure. Instead, in-place upgrades are what is mainly expected and documented.