Case #07783888 — [FR] AAIP for Exchange/Domaincontroller not show in workload protection history report

[uk1984]

We currently are using these reports for our customers:
Database Log Protection History
Workload Protection History

And the customers reported some uncertainties to us:

1. Is it not visible if certain officially natively supported "Applications" are processed "correctly" with AAIP (Windows Domain Controllers and Exchange for Example). In fact for no VM something like "AAIP" is shown in the Workload Protection History. Also same would be for VM which have pre- and post-freeze script or index/malware activated...

How can this be achieved?

Is there maybe another report which displays such information?

Support has no answer and refers putting this "issue" here on the R&D Forum.

See:
Case #07783888 — AAIP for Exchange/Domaincontroller not show in workload protection history report

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello Udo,
Veeam ONE reports similar information as Veeam Backup & Replication. How do you see these applications protected in a regular VBR Job, just as VMs/Windows Agents right? Or when you try to restore those from backups, under the repository list should be a VM/Agent, but not an AD, or Exchange per-se.

What would be the best way of showing it? Maybe you can share some screenshot here of an excel with the columns, etc.

Thank you!

[uk1984]

Hello Jorge,

regarding AAIP and Domain Controllers and Exchange Servers it is a bit "tricky" with VBR.
There is no "Tab" within the Processing Settings for Domain Controllers and Exchange like it is for example for SQL/Oracle/PostgreSQL.
So you just activate "Require successful processing" and "Process transaction logs with this job (recommended)" and hope it works accordingly...

So even for us as backup admins from the normal history/logs we cannot really say if everything works correctly regarding application-aware backup
for these particular officially supported two applications (Domain Controller/Exchange).

And so our customer asked us rightfully how can see it from the reports we hand out because there this information is also not visible there.
So this in my eyes not not 100% VeeamONE "issue" because it cannot present what isn't there as obvious information from VBR...
But then there would also be the question how much can or does VeeamONE interpret the information from VeeamONE.
Application-aware Backup is "checked" so that could be displayed easily within VeeamONE.
Making at least a bit more visible that this is maybe a bit more special server/application in the reports.

I would have some screenshots but it seems not being possible to upload them?

I you want we can have a remote session and I can explain it more in depth.

Best Regards
Udo

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello,
You can upload some images to https://imgbb.com/ and get the bb code which is what you can embed here.

It will totally help us, but I think I understand your point. If you have some time, please share those screenshots and perhaps share some CSV, or Excel screenshot on how you want to see the data.

Thank you!

[uk1984]

Hello Jorge,

on the report "Workload Protection History" I selected all available columns.
So I would get the most information possible.

These would be the colums.
But non of the give me the information if this is an exchange server or an active directory server.
I will attach a screenshot from a report with actual data in these columns.
Object Name
Enterprise Application Server
Inclusions
Platform
Job Name
Job Type
Backup Server
Start Time
Finish Time
Duration
Backup Proxy
Backup Mode
Schedule Type
Target Name
Target Type
Tape ID
Data Read, GB
Data Transferred, GB
Restore Point Removal Date (GFS only)
Immutable Until
Actual Total Backup Size, GB
# of Restore Points
Backup Status
Failure Reason
# of Restore Point Copies

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Also screenshot from the backup job where I configured AAIP, because I know this is a Windows Domain controller.
There is also not really any information that is an MS AD Server...

And the backup of the Domain controller is configured like described here:
https://www.veeam.com/blog/backing-up-d ... ction.html







For the exchange servers at least within the job log it says something like this:
16:45:57 Saving GuestMembers.xml 00:19
16:47:17 Finalizing 00:02
16:47:19 Truncating Exchange transaction logs 00:09
16:47:29 Truncating SQL server transaction logs 00:03
16:47:48 Deleted file blocks skipped: 154 MB

Best Regards
Udo

[jorgedlcruz]

I see,
Thank you so much. Yes it will be interesting to expand the details of the job sessions within Workload Protection History. We will investigate and take it as a feature request to improve on future releases.

I have changed the first topic name adding the [FR] to it.

Thank you so much for this feedback.