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Backup of SQL with application aware processing

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I have an SQL instance running on Windows 2008 server.
It's heavy IO instance and using veeam backup and replication to back it up.

Is it safe to select "log truncation" in case the backup is just crash consistent?
I have selected "Try application processing, but ignore failures".

So in this scenario, is it safe to select "Process transaction logs with this job" or will it work?
If the SQL is highly transnational, what impact this can bring in during a restore?

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Re: Backup of SQL with application aware processing

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Hi Shahid, logs processing is a part of application-aware image processing, so will not be performed if AAIP of the VM fails.
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Re: Backup of SQL with application aware processing

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Just a confirmation,
a file consistent backup will also ignore log truncation?
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What do you mean by "file consistent"?
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Re: Backup of SQL with application aware processing

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Hi Foggy,

I may be wrong here, there are three levels of snapshot consistency rt?
1.App
2.File
3.Crash
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Please review backup consistency options available with Veeam B&R. Logs processing is performed only in case you perform application-aware processing.
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Re: Backup of SQL with application aware processing

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Thanks for the clarification :)

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