hi,
apologies as i am sure this has been asked many times before but i cant really find an answer to my question. so my situation is this. I have two types of backups; agent based and snap based backups.
For the vm's that are being backed up by snapshots the process is: vmware does the snap, then the san takes a snap of the storage and then the backup is taken from the san. we then have full vm backups.
For the agent based backups, these are only backing up file level stuff. so we use this for our sql cluster and some other servers. these are not snaps/full vm backups, but simply backups of databases and files etc.
this works well, but there are a couple of servers that need to be in the full vm snap category and therefore cant have the backup agent installed on that vm as it is already being backed up by the snap technology. so what would be the best practice on these snapped vms that have sql installed as well? should i configure a reoccurring backup in sql management studio (if this is possible??) which is done before the vm snap backup? or is there another way i should be backing up the dbs?
any suggestions would be very welcome.
thanks
aaron