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2.12.2.1 Prerequisites
Before enabling the application backup, ensure that:
The virtual machines being backed up meet the requirements for application-consistent
quiescing listed in the following VMware knowledge base article:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc%2FvddkBk
upVadp.9.6.html
VMware Tools is installed and up-to-date on each of the virtual machines that you want to back
up.
User Account Control (UAC) is disabled on the machines. If you do not want to disable UAC, you
must provide the credentials of a built-in domain administrator (DOMAIN\Administrator) when
enabling application backup.
Entire machine is selected for backup.
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for virtual machines backup option is enabled in the
backup plan. To find this option, click the gear icon, then Backup options > Volume Shadow
Copy Service (VSS) for virtual machines. This option is enabled by default.
For Microsoft SQL Server, also ensure that:
SQL Server Browser Service and TCP/IP protocol are enabled on the machines. For instructions on
how to start SQL Server Browser Service, refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189093.aspx. You can enable the TCP/IP protocol by
using a similar procedure.
2.12.2.2 Required user rights
An application-aware backup contains metadata of VSS-aware applications that are present on the
disk. To access this metadata within the guest system, Agent for VMware needs an account with the
appropriate rights that are listed below. You are prompted to specify this account when enabling
application backup.
For SQL Server:
The account must be a member of the Backup Operators or Administrators group on the
machine, and a member of the sysadmin role on each of the instances that you are going to back
up.
For Exchange Server:
See "Selecting Exchange Server data" (p. 30).
For Active Directory
The account must be a domain administrator.
2.12.2.3 Recovering databases from application-aware backups
You can recover SQL and Exchange databases from application-aware backups of virtual machines.
For information about creating application-aware backups, see "Application-aware backup" (p. 52).
The databases, along with their logs and other related files, will be saved as files to a folder you
specify. After that, you can attach the databases to a live SQL Server or Exchange Server. You can also
use the database files for data mining, audit, or further processing by third-party tools.
To recover databases
1. Select the machine which originally contained the data that you want to recover.
2. Click Recovery.
