HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

Configuration check modes
You can select between three configuration check modes:
• Strict
If any file or folder on the volume does not belong to the component, the backup
or instant recovery fails.
• Non-strict
If any folder on the volume does not belong to the component, the backup or
instant recovery fails.
• Disabled
A check detects whether there is more than one component on the volume and
whether there is any other data besides the component’s data on the volume, but
the session will not fail.
IMPORTANT:
If the configuration check is disabled for an instant recovery, you will lose the data that
does not belong to a component, but resides on the same volume as the component.
Disable configuration check only if instant recovery cannot be performed with an enabled
configuration check and only if you are sure that this will not result in a loss of data
during the instant recovery.
The configuration check should not be disabled except for the cases when instant
recovery cannot be performed with an enabled configuration check. Due to the
specific behavior, some writers (not applicable to the MSDE Writer and Microsoft
Exchange Server writers) may create temporary files on components volumes during
backup and instant recovery causing the check failure. In such cases, instant recovery
will not be possible.
Backup
Overview
To run backups and restores of the VSS writers and filesystems, you need to configure
the Application Recovery Manager Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
integration backup specifications.
To configure the backup using the VSS integration, perform the following steps:
Integrating the Application Recovery Manager ZDB integrations and Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service
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