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:

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.

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

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint 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 Backup for Proxmox VE, application-aware processing is not supported.
For VeeamZIP backups, application-aware processing is not supported. For more information, see the VeeamZIP section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
For 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.

Note

You must use Veeam Agent backup jobs in the following cases:

If your Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure contains virtual and physical machines and has Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server installed on separate machines. You can use one or separate jobs to back up the Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server machines.
If your Microsoft SQL Server machines are a part of a failover cluster.

For more information, see the Working with Veeam Agent Backup Jobs and Policies section of the Veeam Agent Management Guide.