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Define How You Will Back Up Arcserve D2D Sessions

The method that you use to back up Arcserve D2D sessions is contingent upon your recovery time objective and the purpose of the Arcserve Backup backup sessions. You can use the following methods to back up Arcserve D2D sessions.

Arcserve D2D Backups

Consider the following aspects of Arcserve D2D backup operations:

• Use this method when you want to recover individual files and folders and recover data (Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server) quickly at application level granularity.
• You install Arcserve D2D on the nodes that you want to protect.
• You add Arcserve D2D nodes to the Arcserve D2D Servers object in the Backup Manager Source tree.
• With this backup method, you let Arcserve Backup create backup sessions from the full and incremental Arcserve D2D backup sessions. This type of backup lets Arcserve Backup back up the Arcserve D2D catalog files.
• You can use multistreaming to back up the Arcserve D2D full and incremental backup sessions to decrease the overall backup window. Multistreaming lets you transmit multiple streams of backup data in one job. When using multistreaming with incremental backups, the backup window is fast.

Client Agent for Windows Backups

Consider the following aspects of Client Agent for Windows backup operations:

• Use this backup method when you want to use the backup data to perform full system recoveries, such as for disaster recovery and Bare Metal Recovery.
• You install Arcserve D2D and the Client Agent for Windows on the nodes that you want to protect.
• You add Arcserve D2D nodes to the Arcserve D2D Proxy Servers object in the Backup Manager Source tree.

  Note: Arcserve Central Host-Based VM Backup servers can function as backup proxy servers for Client Agent for Windows backups. Arcserve Central Host-Based VM Backup lets you back up Arcserve D2D nodes through a backup proxy system using fewer Arcserve D2D licenses. For more information about Arcserve Central Host-Based VM Backup, see the Arcserve Central Host-Based VM Backup User Guide on the Arcserve Central Applications Bookshelf on the Arcserve Support Online website.

• With this method, you let Arcserve Backup create full backup sessions from the Arcserve D2D backup sessions.
• You can use multistreaming to back up the Arcserve D2D sessions to decrease the overall backup window. Multistreaming lets you transmit multiple streams of backup data in one job. With multistreaming, the backup data for each node that is contained in a job is processed as one stream of backup data.