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3690065 - Error "SAP DBTech JDBC:[8]: invalid argument: host unknown or inactive." when opening Backup Consle in SAP HANA Studio

Symptom

The following error occurs when attempting to open the Backup console in SAP HANA Studio:

Could not read backup log file of system xxx. Internal error'
SAP DBTech JDBC:[8]: invalid argument: host unknown or inactive.


The HANA Studio log file (.log, refer to KBA 2046508) contains the following error: 

!ENTRY com.sap.ndb.studio.admin.model 4 4 2025-12-01 09:38:41.265
!MESSAGE SAP DBTech JDBC: [8]: invalid argument: host unknown or inactive
!STACK 0
com.sap.db.jdbc.exceptions.JDBCDriverException: SAP DBTech JDBC: [8]: invalid argument: host unknown or inactive
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionSapDB._newInstance(SQLExceptionSapDB.java:209)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionSapDB.newInstance(SQLExceptionSapDB.java:42)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.packet.HReplyPacket._buildExceptionChain(HReplyPacket.java:902)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.packet.HReplyPacket.getSQLExceptionChain(HReplyPacket.java:218)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.packet.HPartInfo.getSQLExceptionChain(HPartInfo.java:39)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.ConnectionSapDB._receive(ConnectionSapDB.java:6110)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.ConnectionSapDB.exchange(ConnectionSapDB.java:2751)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.PreparedStatementSapDB._execute(PreparedStatementSapDB.java:3819)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.PreparedStatementSapDB._execute(PreparedStatementSapDB.java:2829)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.PreparedStatementSapDB._executeQuery(PreparedStatementSapDB.java:2793)
    at com.sap.db.jdbc.PreparedStatementSapDB.executeQuery(PreparedStatementSapDB.java:706)
    at com.sap.ndb.studio.admin.model.backup.impl.BackupMonitorImpl.getCurrentOffset(BackupMonitorImpl.java:618)
    at com.sap.ndb.studio.backup.editors.pages.overview.data.OverViewData.checkForRunningBackup(OverViewData.java:331)
    at com.sap.ndb.studio.backup.editors.pages.overview.data.OverViewData.retrieve(OverViewData.java:213)
    at com.sap.ndb.studio.backup.editors.pages.overview.data.OverviewHandler$1.run(OverviewHandler.java:74)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)

Further research reveals:

  • "Configuration and Monitoring" -> "Open Administration" can open successfully.
  • Monitoring view: M_BACKUP_CATALOG and M_BACKUP_SIZE_ESTIMATIONS are empty.
  • indexserver trace does not contains any errors related to above monitoring views.
  • backup.log does not contain any recent backup logs.

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Environment

SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0

Product

SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0

Keywords

HANA Studio, SAP DBTech JDBC: [8]: invalid argument: host unknown or inactive, Backup Console, System Replication, logreplay_readaccess , KBA , HAN-STD-ADM-BAC , SAP HANA Studio Backup & Recovery , Problem

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