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shamee
Level 5
10 years ago

Backup Exec Agent for Hyper-V and VMWare

Hi,

I have Hyper-V Cluster with two Windows 2008 R2 servers and SAS connected external storage. I have many VMs including SQL server. Will i be able to take disk-to-disk-to-tape backup using Backup Exec Agent for Hyper-V and VMWare? I want to tale backup first to disk and to tape from there. I already got Backup Exec Server and now adding this new cluster into that. Thanks.

Regards,

Sabu Hameed.

 

 

2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    10 years ago

    Hi,

    Yes you can...define a B2D folder on your media server, point your jobs to this and run the backup.

    You would add in a stage to duplicate to tape thereafter.

    If you want to do GRT-based backups/restores of your VMs then the RAWS agent needs to be installed on each VM.

    Thanks!

  • AmolB's avatar
    AmolB
    10 years ago

    To perform GRT backup and restore of SQL database you need an Agent for

    Application and Database license.

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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    Hi,

    Yes you can...define a B2D folder on your media server, point your jobs to this and run the backup.

    You would add in a stage to duplicate to tape thereafter.

    If you want to do GRT-based backups/restores of your VMs then the RAWS agent needs to be installed on each VM.

    Thanks!

  • AmolB's avatar
    AmolB
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    To perform GRT backup and restore of SQL database you need an Agent for

    Application and Database license.

  • shamee's avatar
    shamee
    Level 5
    10 years ago

    This is not the case with other disk based backup solution. The backup software will do that as well when they take application aware backup. So in the case of Backup Exec, we still need db agent for item level restore?

    Regards,

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    Yes.  You need an db agent licence if you want to do item level restore with BE.

    The other backup solutions may be able to do item level restore without another db licence because the cost of such an agent is imbedded into the core licence and you would pay more if you are not using that particular db.