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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Microsoft Application Agent SQL Server User Guide

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Support for existing Microsoft application agent backups with PowerProtect Data Manager

The Microsoft application agent provides the capability to onboard existing stand-alone deployments, including their existing backups, to PowerProtect Data Manager. Existing backups are Microsoft application agent backups that you performed before integrating the Microsoft application agent with the PowerProtect Data Manager software and before adding an asset to a PowerProtect Data Manager protection policy.

NOTE

Onboarding of SQL backup copies to PowerProtect Data Manager is supported only from backups that are performed with Microsoft application agent 4.7 and later.

You can onboard up to three previous months of existing backups.

Retention lock is not supported for discovered existing backups in PowerProtect Data Manager.

Onboarding is not supported for DD Boost-over-FC backups and 32-bit FCI instance backups.

With the onboarding capability, PowerProtect provides the following centralized features:

  • Visibility of both existing backups and any new self-service or PowerProtect Data Manager policy-driven backups of onboarded assets.
  • Automatic configuration of target protection storage based on the PowerProtect Data Manager protection policies that are used for your database.
  • All the other functionality that is provided for PowerProtect Data Manager protection policies.

When you create a protection policy, the PowerProtect Data Manager software can either create or reuse a storage unit on the specified DD system backup host, subject to limitations. All subsequent backups of assets in that protection policy go to this storage unit. This implementation uses scripts (T-SQL or CLI) or the SSMS UI to override the storage unit information that is provided in any running backup with the storage unit information from PowerProtect Data Manager.


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