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Database Level Backup and Restore Benefits

Database level backup and restore offers many benefits, including:

• Push Agent Technology--Database level backup uses push agent technology to increase the efficiency of your backup jobs by processing the data at the remote client workstations rather than processing it all from the Arcserve Backup host server. This off loads the system resources from the Arcserve Backup host server and minimizes network traffic.
• Multi Streaming Support--Database level backup lets you take advantage of the full capacity of multiple drives and high-speed RAID arrays capable of fast concurrent backups to multiple tapes. It does this by partitioning information into concurrent streams for parallel backups.
• Enhanced Cluster Support-- (Exchange Server 2007) Database level backup offers Active/Active and Active/Passive cluster support with cross cluster node failover.

  For database level operations on Exchange Server 2007 platforms, the agent supports Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) and Single Copy Cluster (SCC) environments.

  Note: For more information about installing the agent on a cluster, see Configure the Agent to Run on a Cluster.

• Job Continuation-- If a job fails to complete, the makeup job continues from the failed storage group (Exchange Server 2003, 2007) or the database (Exchange Server 2010/2013).
• Replica Database Support--The agent can successfully back up replica databases (LCR and CCR), given the replication is healthy. This capability reduces the load on the active Exchange database. On Exchange Server 2010/2013 systems, the agent can successfully back up replica databases in the Database Availability Group (DAG).

More information:

Configure the Agent to Run on a Cluster