Sunday, July 29, 2012

VADP application quiescing

Recently, I am helping out a friend on VADP deployment.  He has question about VADP quiescing.  I pointed him to an article in Backup Central.  To make sure application quiescing is supported for Windows 2008 R2, make sure ESX 4.1 U1 is deployed (documented in VMware KB: 1031298).  However, if Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 VM deployed under ESX 4.0, make sure KB: 1028881 is followed.

For Exchange and SQL, I still suggest use of Exchange or SQL agent from backup software to backup them up.  When restore is required, for ex, Exchange, you can restore folder in a mailbox easily.

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