Required Job Settings

This requirement applies to backup jobs, replication jobs, and CDP policies created by Veeam Backup & Replication.

When you create a job or CDP policy, make sure to enable application-aware processing in the Veeam Backup & Replication console:

• When you configure a backup job, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New Backup Job wizard.
• When you configure a replication job, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New Replication Job wizard.
• When you configure a CDP policy, you can do this at the Specify Guest Processing Settings step of the New CDP Policy wizard.

Note that when you create storage snapshots, application-aware processing is automatically enabled. For more information, see the Application Item Restore from Storage Snapshots section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

If your restore points were created without application-aware image processing, you can still explore them, as described in Exploring non-Application Enabled Backups.

The application-specific information is retrieved according to the following logic:

• If the application-aware image processing option is enabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle obtains application-specific Oracle database information from the Oracle VM backup metadata located in the backup server configuration database.

• If the application-aware image processing option is disabled, Veeam Explorer for Oracle requires a staging Oracle server to mount the selected image-level Oracle VM backup (with databases and redo logs) and to collect required information using the guest scan and Oracle infrastructure analysis.