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 Exchange 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

By default, Exchange transaction logs will be truncated upon successful backup. To keep transaction logs for further processing by a 3rd party application, select the Exchange server machine from the list, click Edit and on the General tab select Perform copy only.

Support for Database Availability Groups (DAG)

Veeam Backup & Replication supports any configuration of DAGs. In particular, having all the databases active on a single node or with the active databases on each node. Transaction logs will be truncated on all DAG members.

For more information and recommendations about DAGs, see this Veeam KB article.