Required Job Settings

When you create backup jobs, replication jobs, and CDP policies, make sure to enable application-aware processing in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

You can configure this setting at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the job or policy wizard for the relevant hypervisor, cloud or physical platform. For example, see Specify Guest Processing Settings for VMware vSphere backup jobs started in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

Without application-aware processing, the created restore points will be crash-consistent only.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory allows you to explore crash-consistent restore points with heuristic analysis, which scans the restore point for application data. Note that application item restore from crash-consistent restore points is less reliable than restore from application-consistent restore points. Without application-aware processing, the restore point could contain unfinished database transactions or incomplete application files, which may affect data recovery.

Consider the following:

• For backups made with Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV and Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore, application-aware processing is not supported.
• For VeeamZIP backups, application-aware processing is not supported. For more information, see VeeamZIP.
• For storage snapshots, application-aware processing is automatically enabled. For more information, see Application Item Restore from Storage Snapshots.