Hi,
My customer´s environment is this:
- One server(2012) with SharePoint 2013 server(only one server in the farm)
- One server(2012) with MS SQL 2008R2(all sharepoint databases are here. this server also handles lots of other databases)
All servers are virtual using VMware.
The Backup Exec 2014 server(2008R2) is a physical standalone machine.
I need to backup everything, preferable using VMware Agent with GRT. The plan in to run Full backups of everything once a month, and incrementals daily.
One of the problem I have is that almost every Sharepoint Farm backups fail with the following errer: "Final error: 0xe0000363 - The Backup Exec SQL Agent was not used to create the last full, differential, or log backup of this database. You must use the SQL Agent to run a full backup before you can run a differential backup or transaction log backup."
Ofcourse I only backup with BE, nothin else. I interpret the message above as I do a VMware GRT backup of the database server first, the following backup using Sharepoint agent complains.
I would like to know what the best practises is to backup with a scenario like this?
I´m getting confused and suspect that I backup both the sharepoint anvironment and the sql environment twice which is stupid.
Some questions I have in my head are: Should I backup the SQL server using VMware Agent with SQL GRT? Since I want to restore individual databases other that Sharepoint. Or should I backup without GRT and do a backup using the SQL agent and select only the non-sharepoint databases?
And Should I do the same for the SharePoint server or not? Or what about backup the "farm" since that seems to backup databases too?
Please help me how I should set this up the best way.
Regards,
//Andreas..