An environment is using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and has Microsoft Exchange 2016 with regular Database Availability Groups (DAGs) configured. What option is required to properly back up the databases?
An environment is using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and has Microsoft Exchange 2016 with regular Database Availability Groups (DAGs) configured. What option is required to properly back up the databases?
To properly back up Microsoft Exchange 2016 databases configured with regular Database Availability Groups (DAGs), it is necessary to configure a Veeam Agent backup job for a failover cluster. This ensures that the backup job can process the DAG correctly, capturing a consistent state of the databases and transaction logs across the cluster nodes. Therefore, the correct option is Failover Cluster.
The procedure of adding a Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG) to a Veeam Agent backup job differs depending on the type of the DAG that you want to process: For a regular DAG, the backup job configuration procedure is the same as for any failover cluster. To process a regular DAG, you must configure a Veeam Agent backup job for a failover cluster https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/dag_hiw.html?ver=120
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/dag_hiw.html?ver=120
C. Exchange Processing To properly back up Microsoft Exchange databases in an environment using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, you would need to configure "Exchange Processing." This option allows Veeam to interact with the Exchange server, ensuring that it quiesces the databases and transaction logs correctly to create consistent backups of the Exchange data. This is essential for the proper backup and recovery of Exchange databases, especially in environments with Database Availability Groups (DAGs) where data consistency is critical.
Where did you find it? I think the link below clearly states failover cluster
That's a Chat GPT response, it's not correct. The procedure of adding a Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG) to a Veeam Agent backup job differs depending on the type of the DAG that you want to process: For a regular DAG, the backup job configuration procedure is the same as for any failover cluster. To process a regular DAG, you must configure a Veeam Agent backup job for a failover cluster
A. - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/dag_hiw.html?ver=120