My first backup and VM with AD & Exchange

[matviey]

Hi Veeam geeks

I have windows server 2008R2 with hyper-v

One of VM's is 2012SBS (AD + Exchange)

I purchsed veeam backup standard and I'm going to setup backup job for this VM (SBS 2012).
backup destination will be NAS Box with iSCSI target.

My questions:
- do i have to be aware about some difficult settings in veeam ?
- What's happen with exchange logs after full backup ?
- What's happen with exchange logs after incremental backup ?
- Is there anything what I schould set in veeam ? and later be able to fully recover exchange or Active Directory ?

Please guys, any help, I will appreciate.
it's my first time.

Regards

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Maciej,

- do i have to be aware about some difficult settings in veeam ?

There is nothing difficult, but make sure you enable application-aware image processing option in the backup job for this VM.

- What's happen with exchange logs after full backup ?

By default, all transaction logs are truncated, but you can control this behavior via advanced settings of the backup job.

- What's happen with exchange logs after incremental backup ?

The answer is the same as above.

- Is there anything what I schould set in veeam ? and later be able to fully recover exchange or Active Directory ?

No extra options are required except the setting I've mentioned in the first answer.

Hope this helps!