Operation Manual

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2 User's Guide
2.1 About the backup service
This service enables backup and recovery of physical and virtual machines, files, and databases to
local or cloud storage.
This service is available through a web interface.
2.2 What's new in version 5
Virtualization
The availability of the features listed in this section depends on the settings made by your backup
service administrator.
Recovery to a new VM. Define a new name and exact location for machines that are recovered
as VMs (p. 39) (Hyper-V and ESXi).
VM Flashback (incremental restore). The fastest possible VM recovery technology. Only the
changes between the current VM state and its state within the backup are recovered. Both
Hyper-V and ESXi platforms are supported.
New platform support: Virtuozzo. Agent-less backup and recovery (including file recovery) of
Virtuozzo virtual machines and containers.
Run a VM from a backup (instant recovery) and move it to production without downtime. The
ability to run an ESXi or Hyper-V virtual machine (p. 50) from a locally stored backup of a virtual
or physical machine, for validation or disaster-recovery purposes. An ESXi machine running from
a backup can be converted to a regular virtual machine, without downtime.
Application items recovery from a VM backup. Application-aware agent-less backup (p. 52) of
ESXi virtual machines running Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange enables browsing
and recovery of databases without recovering the entire machine.
Application-aware backup of VMs with Microsoft Active Directory. Application-aware agent-less
backup (p. 52) of ESXi virtual machines running Microsoft Active Directory prevents the
possibility of a USN rollback after a recovery of a domain controller.
Enhanced hypervisor management. The ability to view (p. 54) vSphere and Hyper-V
environments in the native hypervisor-specific presentation.
Change vCenter/ESXi password without reinstallation. The ability to change (p. 54) the vCenter
or ESXi host connection password in the backup console.
Flexible backup configuration. More backup options:
CBT. Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for both Hyper-V and ESXi virtual machines.
Choose between crash-consistent and application-consistent snapshots. New Volume
Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for virtual machines backup option to enable or disable
quiescing by using hypervisor tools. Supports both Hyper-V and ESXi virtual machines.
Intelligent snapshot failure handling. Re-attempt, if an error occurs when creating a virtual
machine snapshot. Supports both Hyper-V and ESXi virtual machines.
More recovery options:
VM power management.