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Application Aware Backupd for Amazon EC2 VM

  • 9 November 2022
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Hi All,

 

We are currently using SQL idata agent to backup SQL Databases on Amazon EC2 VM.

Should we move from SQL idata agent backup to Application aware backups for Amazon EC2 VM here hypervisor is Amazon.

What will be the disadvantages and advantags of using Application aware backups on Amazon VM’s as compare to SQL idata agent backups.

 

Please provide what Commvault recommends.

 

Reagrdas,

Rahul Raina

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Best answer by Mike Struening RETIRED 9 November 2022, 18:23

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Hi @Rahul18081 !

I’ll defer to the wisdom of the docs.  there’s some very big advantages regarding the restore of the data state:

https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/106239_application_aware_backups.html

Application-aware backups capture the state of application data at the time of the backup, including data in memory and pending transactions, making it easier to restore the application for continued use. An application-aware backup for a virtual machine quiesces the application, flushes its memory, and completes pending writes, then creates a software snapshot of application data. After the software snapshot is created, the application resumes.

The application-aware backup includes two parts:

  • Virtual Server Agent (VSA) backup: The VSA backup of the virtual machine can be a streaming backup or IntelliSnap backup.

  • Application backup: The application backup is triggered automatically by the VSA backup. The backup of application data always uses IntelliSnap, even if the VSA backup is a streaming backup.

To review summary information for application-aware backup jobs, you can download the Application Jobs Per VSA AppAware Job custom report from the Commvault Store.

Guest OS Support

You can perform application-aware backup operations for Windows VMs.

You can also perform application-aware backups for Linux VMs that run Oracle. This option is available only for hypervisors that support Linux proxies.

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@Mike Struening :- You are advising that Application Aware Backup has big advantage over SQL idata agent. 

Also our hypervisor will be Amazon will this work smoothly on it without any issue.

And we use Infrequest S3 bucket for short retention and Infrequest-Glacier and Infrequent-DeepArchive for longer retention. Will these storage type also work for App Aware Backup on Amazon.

 

Please sugggest.

 

Regards,

Rahul

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@Rahul18081 There is no advantage to move from SQL ida backups to application aware. Storage types are relative if they are supported by CV and work for one backup, they work for them all.

 

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