newbie VBR and MS AD

[alexs]

Hi

Been looking around the manuals. Then came here.

I am testing VBR, my environment is VMWare 6.5, with Windows and Linux VM's.

So I get that I can backup my VM's via VMWare snap and backup.

Now I want to backup my DC's. So click application aware in the backup job - is that all I need to do ?
For file indexing sounds cool, I presume this allows me to restore just a file if I want it, do I need to install anything on the server being backed up, to make this happen

My Linux boxes- same thing do I need to install the agent to get application aware stuff and to do the file indexing.

[HannesK]

Hi,

So click application aware in the backup job - is that all I need to do ?

yes (okay, you need to specify credentials additionally)

file indexing sounds cool, I presume this allows me to restore just a file

it's not required. file restore works without indexing. the most common use case for indexing is that you can search for files. but except for file-servers many customers don't use it.

same thing do I need to install the agent to get application aware stuff and to do the file indexing.

nope Veeam is agentless (except for physical machines).

I suggest to look at the evaluation guide (it's still 9.5Update 3 based, but it has the basics)

Best regards,
Hannes