Backups of Clustered or Distributed applications on a Virtual Machine for Granular recovery

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Article ID: 100028653

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Resolution

In order to restore the GRT content of a distributed application, it must be backed up as a physical backup of that application resource. This allows the backup to get all of the content from the multiple servers the application resides on. Then Backup Exec is able to restore GRT content from inside the distributed application.

 

Applies To

Exchange DAG

SQL Cluster

SharePoint Farm

 

Issue/Introduction

How to backup a Clustered or Distributed application from a Virtual Machine (VM) with Backup Exec (BE) and be able to restore Application Granular Restore Technology (GRT) content. Cause