Managing backups

After you configure Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server, you can schedule backups.You must set up a virtual machine backup schedule and a Microsoft SQL Server log backup before you can start a backup.

Scheduling virtual machine backups
To schedule virtual machine backups, complete the following steps.
Scheduling Microsoft SQL Server backups
After the virtual machine backup schedule is created, you can create the Microsoft SQL Server backup schedule.
Verifying backups
After you create a backup, verify that you can query the virtual machine backups and the database backups from the Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server interface.
Managing versions of backups
By using Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server, you can manage expiration of backups. You can specify the number of snapshot backups to retain and the length of time to retain snapshots.
Verifying that virtual machine backups do not exclude Microsoft SQL Server volumes
The volumes in Virtual machine disks (VMDKs) must contain the Microsoft SQL Server databases that are not excluded from the Data Protection for VMware backup processing.