I guess you are talking about VM-image level backup and VM-client based backups, correct?
VM-Image level backup (with NMM) are intended to restore VM's whereas Client based backups is intended for either applications running on that VM or files within that VM.
NMM is similar to VMware backup (VBA), so you can restore the entire VM in one shot, and client-based backups are just to restore the content of the OS/files.
Let me know if this answers your question or if I misunderstood what you are referring to.
Thank you for your quick answer. Yes that's right, but what I meant more percisely is this:
The NMM Hyper-V documentation says that guest-level backups are application-aware backups whereas the image-level backups are not. Now when there is a VM with a Microsoft application installed on it (for example MS SQL) we need to do guest level backups because we want application aware backups.
In addition to these guest level backups, we also want the virtual machine backed up. My question is, is this possible? And what's about the redundant data (because we backup the data twice image- and guest-level backup). Do they interfere each other and do we need to consider the running order.
CarlosRojas
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February 19th, 2015 06:00
Hello Patrick,
I guess you are talking about VM-image level backup and VM-client based backups, correct?
VM-Image level backup (with NMM) are intended to restore VM's whereas Client based backups is intended for either applications running on that VM or files within that VM.
NMM is similar to VMware backup (VBA), so you can restore the entire VM in one shot, and client-based backups are just to restore the content of the OS/files.
Let me know if this answers your question or if I misunderstood what you are referring to.
Thank you,
Carlos
Patrick_R1
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February 19th, 2015 06:00
Hi Carlos
Thank you for your quick answer.
Yes that's right, but what I meant more percisely is this:
The NMM Hyper-V documentation says that guest-level backups are application-aware backups whereas the image-level backups are not. Now when there is a VM with a Microsoft application installed on it (for example MS SQL) we need to do guest level backups because we want application aware backups.
In addition to these guest level backups, we also want the virtual machine backed up. My question is, is this possible? And what's about the redundant data (because we backup the data twice image- and guest-level backup). Do they interfere each other and do we need to consider the running order.
Patrick