Windows Applications

Choosing the Host/VM listed and clicking on Edit Guest Processing Settings will bring you to this page. If you are backing up a Windows VM with Microsoft applications such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, or AD, under the Windows Application tab, you can see the options to customize the Application-Aware Processing & Log Truncation.

Application-Aware Processing

• On selecting Require successful application processing (recommended), the backup will continue only if all the application writers are stable and the application-aware processing is successful.
• On selecting Ignore application processing failures, the backup will proceed regardless of whether application-aware is successful or not. This is not recommended, as your backup may not be transaction-consistent.
• On selecting Disable application-aware processing, the backup will proceed without ensuring the transaction consistency for the applications inside the VMs.

Log Truncation

• On selecting Truncate the transaction logs, the transaction logs of Microsoft Exchange Server & Microsoft SQL Server will be truncated after the successful backups.
• On selecting Do not truncate logs, the transaction logs of Microsoft Exchange Server & Microsoft SQL Server will not be truncated.