Enable Application-Aware Image Processing and Indexing

At the Guest Processing step of the wizard, you can enable guest file indexing and select to create a transactionally consistent backup.

• If you want to create a transactionally consistent backup ensuring successful recovery of VM applications without any data loss and specify advanced application-aware image processing settings, select the Enable application-aware image processing check box.

To learn about application-aware image processing, see the Transaction Consistency section.

• If you want to index guest files in a VM you back up, select the Enable guest file system indexing check box. Veeam Backup & Replication will perform file indexing and enable you to perform fast and accurate search for VM guest OS files via the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager web UI, and restore these files with 1 click. To learn more about indexing, refer to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager documentation.

To coordinate proper indexing and VSS activities, Veeam Backup & Replication deploys a small agent inside a VM. The agent is installed only during VSS quiescence and indexing procedure and removed immediately after the processing is finished (depending on the selected option, during the backup job or after it is finished), thus producing low impact on VM performance and stability.

In the Guest OS credentials section, specify an account with local administrative privileges for deploying the agent. Please note that the user name must be supplied in the DOMAIN\USERNAME format. The guest OS credentials you provide will be used for all VMs included into the backup job.

Click Advanced to specify advanced options for Veeam VSS and indexing processing. The Advanced Options window contains a list of VMs that will be processed with Veeam VSS and indexing tools.

By default, for all VMs in the list Veeam Backup & Replication uses common credentials you provided in the Guest OS credentials section. If a different account should be used to deploy the agent inside a specific VM, select the VM in the list, click Set User and enter custom guest OS credentials. To discard custom credentials for a VM, select it in the list and click Default.

If you want to define custom settings for a VM added as part of a container, include the VM in the list as a standalone instance. To do so, click Add VM and choose a VM whose settings you want to customize. Next, select the VM in the list and define the necessary custom settings. To discard custom settings of a VM, select the VM in the list and click Remove.

To provide granular quiesencing and indexing options for a VM or a container, select it in the list and click Edit.

In the Applications section on the Applications tab, specify the VSS behavior scenario:

• Select Require successful application processing if you want

Veeam Backup & Replication to stop backup of a VM if any VSS errors occur.

• Select Ignore application processing failures if you want to continue backing up a VM even if VSS errors occur. This option is recommended to guarantee completion of the job.

The created backup image will be not transactionally consistent, but crash consistent.

• Select Disable application processing if you do not want to enable quiescencing for a VM.

Use the Transaction logs section to define the scenario of transaction log handing:

• Select Truncate logs on successful backup only if you want Veeam Backup & Replication to trigger truncation of logs only after the job is finished successfully. In this case, the Veeam agent will wait for the backup to complete, and then will trigger truncation of transaction logs. If truncation of transaction logs is not possible for some reason, the logs will remain untouched in the VM guest OS till the next start of the Veeam agent.

• Select Truncate logs immediately if you want Veeam Backup & Replication to trigger truncation of logs in any case, no matter whether the job finishes successfully or fails.

• Select Do not truncate logs if you do not want to truncate logs at all. This option is recommended if, together with Veeam Backup & Replication, you are using another backup tool to perform guest-level backup, and this tool maintains consistency of the database state. In such scenario, truncation of logs with Veeam Backup & Replication will break the guest-level backup chain and cause it to fall out of sync.

Click the Indexing tab to specify the indexing option for a VM. Please keep in mind that file indexing is supported for Windows-based VMs only.

• Select Disable indexing if you do not want to index guest OS files of a VM and enable the search option.

• Select Index everything if you want to index all guest OS files inside a VM.

• Select Index everything except if you want to index all guest OS files except those defined in the list. By default, system folders are excluded from indexing. You can add or delete folders to exclude using the Add and Remove buttons on the right. You can use any system environment variables, for example: %windir%, %ProgramFiles% and %Temp%.

• Use the Index only following folders option to select specific folders that you want to index. To form a list of folders, use the Add and Remove buttons.