Application Aware Processing - Linux

[rbbch]

Hello,

I have found some mixed advice about this so I was wanting to confirm.

If I set application aware processing on a linux VM in a vSphere job, what is it actually doing? My understanding is you need to install the Linux Agent and setup a linux job to do application aware processing such as Oracle, PostGRE and MYSQL. Why else would you have AAP on a vSphere job for Linux.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards
Ben

[PetrM]

Hi Ben,

For example, in case of Oracle it alters a database to BEGIN BACKUP state and collects an auxiliary information about the instance to make Veeam Explorer for Oracle work without heuristic analysis. Speaking about MySQL and PostgreSQL, your understanding is correct and you need to go with Linux agent job to create transactionally consistent backups of these workloads. However, application-aware image processing enables usage of pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts that can be also necessary in some cases for Linux-based VMs.

Thanks!