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Backup and Restore of vApps

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Veeam Backup & Replication provides you with an option to back up vCloud Director vApps and restore them back to the vCloud Director hierarchy.

In terms of vCloud Director, a vApp is a coherent system that contains one or more VMs. Every vApp is described with a set of operational details, or vApp metadata, that include the following ones:

vApp owner settings
Access rights settings
vApp network settings: information about organization networks to which the vApp is connected
Lease settings and so on

When Veeam Backup & Replication performs backup of a vApp, it backs up all VMs being a part of this vApp along with the vApp metadata. Backup of the vApp is performed with the vCD backup job. The vCD backup job may contain one or several vApps. If necessary, you can exclude specific VMs and VM disks from the backup when configuring a vCD backup job.

Veeam Backup & Replication offers the following restore options for backed up vApps:

Backup and Restore of vApps Note:

Just like vCloud Director, Veeam Backup & Replication treats a vApp as a coherent system. For this reason, it is recommended that you add entire vApps, not separate VMs from the vApp, to the vCD backup job. If you do not want to back up specific VMs in the vApp, you can use exclusion settings in the vCD job.