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Pro Data Backup and Recovery
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Pro Data Backup and Recovery

by Steven Nelson
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
11h 53m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 8 ■ APPLICATION BACKUP STRATEGIES
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So when would the guest OS backup method be used? While the ability to perform the hypervisor-
level backups can largely mitigate the necessity to perform guest OS backups by eliminating many of the
issues, the guest OS–level backup can provide a level of granularity that can more selectively pick what is
backed up and what is ignored. The guest OS backup still provides a superior method of performing VDI
and data stream level backups of SQL Server and Exchange, where the VSS-based method of backing up
via the hypervisor only provides a point-in-time granularity based on the last snapshot taken at the
hypervisor.
Deduplication and VM Backups
One item that is common between both the hypervisor-based ...
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