Thank you for the prompt reply Raghu...
2nd point...they want us to revert back to the SPS 97.03 environment if the SPS 11 upgrade fails or the application testing has issues with that the newer version.
Instead of re-installing SPS 97.03...We wanted to restore the 97.03 tar backup to the appropriate directories ( which includes any customization of *ini files, etc. ) and restore the prior SPS 97.03 full sap hana backup as well...
We have no issues with the SAP HANA backups....It is the SAP HANA software/binaries we are trying to backup and restore if needed...
Thank you.
/gxo13