This section describes how to use single-pass disk and application backups to protect Microsoft SQL Server data.
A single-pass backup operation creates an application-aware disk backup which enables browsing and recovery of the backed-up application data without recovering the entire disk or volume. The disk or volume can also be recovered as a whole. This means that a single solution and a single backup plan can be used for both the disaster recovery and data protection purposes. The application logs can be truncated after the backup, if necessary.
The single-pass backup functionality becomes available by installing Acronis Backup Agent for SQL.
Without this agent, you can protect your SQL Server data by using disk-level backup. For a detailed description of this method, see the "Protecting applications with disk-level backup" section.
Protecting Microsoft SharePoint
A Microsoft SharePoint farm consists of front-end Web servers and machines with Microsoft SQL Server. This means that the information presented in this section also applies to protecting Microsoft SharePoint data.
For the recommendations specific to backing up the machines with SharePoint data, see the "SharePoint data backup" section.
For information about recovering SharePoint data, see the "Recovering SharePoint data" section.