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Hi All,

If I have a VM client being backed up with the VSA agent and it also has the SQL agent installed on it, how would I go about excluding the SQL databases from the the VM backup?

 

Thanks!

Best answer by Albert Williams

Hello Lani,

The following goes over the steps on how to configure and enable Appaware: 

https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/search.html#q=appaware&t=All&sort=relevancy

Please go over this and advise where you are hitting issues as it is going to be the way to get your VM and SQL agent level jobs working together. 

 

Kind regards

Albert Williams

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Hello Lani,

The following goes over the steps on how to configure and enable Appaware: 

https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/search.html#q=appaware&t=All&sort=relevancy

Please go over this and advise where you are hitting issues as it is going to be the way to get your VM and SQL agent level jobs working together. 

 

Kind regards

Albert Williams

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@Lani Sinapi so, to be clear you want the DB protection to be done via the agent and have the DBs automatically being excluded from the VSA backup? Excluding the database files from the VSA backup is possible, but this can't be done automatically. You'll have to make sure the DB files are on a separate disks and via tag based filters you can exclude these disks from the VSA backup. If you want/need to exclude the appaware backup then this can be done via a key https://documentation.commvault.com/additionalsetting/details?name=%22SkipInstallAndConfigApplications%22&id=6715

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Albert Williams wrote:

Hello Lani,

The following goes over the steps on how to configure and enable Appaware: 

https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/search.html#q=appaware&t=All&sort=relevancy

Please go over this and advise where you are hitting issues as it is going to be the way to get your VM and SQL agent level jobs working together. 

 

Kind regards

Albert Williams

Thank you very much this should help out greatly. Much appreciated!

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Onno van den Berg wrote:

@Lani Sinapi so, to be clear you want the DB protection to be done via the agent and have the DBs automatically being excluded from the VSA backup? Excluding the database files from the VSA backup is possible, but this can't be done automatically. You'll have to make sure the DB files are on a separate disks and via tag based filters you can exclude these disks from the VSA backup. If you want/need to exclude the appaware backup then this can be done via a key https://documentation.commvault.com/additionalsetting/details?name=%22SkipInstallAndConfigApplications%22&id=6715

Hello, thanks so much for the info I really appreciate it. This will be great help!

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