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M_Strong
Level 4
10 years ago

GRT restores

Semi-related, not trying to hijack the thread:  I am looking to make a case for the VMWare agent vs. the RAWS agent methodology for our backup strategy. Aside from the above advantages - and witho...
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    pkh
    10 years ago
    Branched off from https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/regular-windows-agent-vs-vmware-agent You can do GRT restores of your Exchange from your VM backups. Likewise, you can restore individual SQL databases from your VM backups. You would still need to purchase Agent for Applications and Databases license to backup Exchange and SQL databases Backing up the VM does not teammate the SQL transaction logs, but this will not affect your ability to restore individual databases. To truncate the logs you need to run a separate job to backup the logs and truncate them.
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pkh
Moderator
10 years ago
Branched off from https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/regular-windows-agent-vs-vmware-agent You can do GRT restores of your Exchange from your VM backups. Likewise, you can restore individual SQL databases from your VM backups. You would still need to purchase Agent for Applications and Databases license to backup Exchange and SQL databases Backing up the VM does not teammate the SQL transaction logs, but this will not affect your ability to restore individual databases. To truncate the logs you need to run a separate job to backup the logs and truncate them.