Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide - Manual (Page 42)

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From the When to copy drop down list select if you would like to copy the backup to the second
location immediately after each backup is created. Or you can indicate the specific days for
performing your backup copy, other than the backup schedule days. In this case you can also choose
to copy all missed recovery points or copy last created recovery points only.
The Copy last created recovery points option might be useful when the first location selected is
sometimes unreachable. In case the Copy all missed recovery points option is selected and the
retention rules for the first storage are executed on the main location, then the software deletes the
recovery points that should be removed by these rules, even if these recovery points were not
copied to the second location. So when the retention rules are executed it is not checked if the
recovery points were already copied to the second storage or not.
By default, the backup type and the clean up rules for the copied backups are the same as the
respective primary backup settings. Meanwhile, you can choose to specify different settings, for
example, employ a different backup type, or change the retention rules options.
After you’ve selected “Where to back up”, click on Next to finish this step and proceed to the next
one.
8.4 How to back up
On the fourth step you should define the preferences of your new backup task.
8.4.1 Application-Aware Backup Settings
Prior to running Microsoft Exchange Server Items, Microsoft SQL Server Databases, Microsoft
SharePoint Server Data or Microsoft Active Directory recovery you have to configure your backups
to become “Application-aware”. From the VMs list on the left select the specific VM(s) running MS
Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, MS SharePoint Server, MS Active Directory, provide its/their
Domain Administrator Credentials. You can add several VMs running applications.
Optionally you can choose to Automatically truncate the transaction logs after backup.
The advanced Application-Aware Backup option is to skip certain applications during backup.
Suppose, you have several applications installed on one virtual machine, and one of these
applications is in a non-consistent state. Then, the other one will not be backed up and the whole
Application-Aware Backup will fail. This option allows you to skip the application which is in a
non-consistent state and proceed with the Application-Aware backup of other applications in
“correct” state. Select the Skip applications option, then make your selection among the applications
to be skipped (MS Exchange, MS SQL Server/SharePoint, MS Active Directory).
Note that for enabling the Application-aware backup, you have to provide guest OS login credentials
for the selected VM(s) running MS Exchange server, MS SQL Server, MS SharePoint Server, MS Active
Directory. This means that you have to specify a user with domain administrator privileges. User
Account Control (UAC) technology introduced in Windows Server 2008 operating system is not
natively supported by Acronis Backup for VMware since the product accesses the VMs data in
agent-less mode. So, if UAC is enabled for the user you specify, we would suggest the following
possible solutions (either one is acceptable):