About requirements for jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology

Keep in mind the following requirements when you use Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with the agents listed:

Table: Granular Recovery Technology requirements

Agent

Restrictions

Active Directory Recovery Agent

You can run only full backups for GRT-enabled jobs.

Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server

Backup Exec must have access to a uniquely named mailbox within the Exchange organization for backup and restore of the Information Store.

See Requirements for accessing Exchange mailboxes .

You cannot restore individual mailboxes and messages if both of the following conditions exist:

  • The incremental or the differential backup method was used.

  • The destination was a tape device.

If you create full, differential, or incremental backups, GRT-enabled jobs have the following restrictions:

  • The full, differential, and incremental job templates must be part of a policy.

  • The destination device must be a backup-to-disk folder.

  • The backup sets from the full, differential, and incremental jobs must be on the same volume.

Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server with CPS

GRT-enabled jobs have the following restrictions:

  • Backups must be sent to a backup-to-disk folder on a local NTFS drive.

    Note:

    You should use the backup-to-disk folder exclusively for CPS Exchange jobs. Do not back up other resources to the backup-to-disk folder that is the destination for the GRT-enabled backup job.

  • Backups must be sent to a specific backup-to-disk folder. You cannot select a device pool.

  • Backups cannot be sent to a backup-to-disk folder for which you selected the Allocate the maximum size for backup-to-disk files option.

Agent for Microsoft SharePoint

GRT-enabled jobs have the following restrictions:

  • You can run only full backups for GRT-enabled jobs.

  • You must have a current version of the Remote Agent for Windows Systems installed on the SharePoint server.

Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V

Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

GRT-enabled jobs have the following restrictions:

  • You can run only full backups for GRT-enabled jobs.

  • You can recover only individual items to virtual machines that run a Windows operating system.

By default, the Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V and the Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure use Granular Recovery Technology to protect files and folders at a granular level. You can also enable the granular recovery of Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory application data that resides on virtual machines.

See How Granular Recovery Technology works with the Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V.

See How Granular Recovery Technology works with the Agent for VMware.

More Information

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About requirements for jobs that use Granular Recovery Technology