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How to Back Up the Arcserve Backup Database

There are two approaches that you can use to back up the Arcserve Backup database.

• Create a backup job as you would create any other backup job and include the Arcserve Backup database objects with the source selections for the job.

  This method requires that you know if you are running SQL Server 2008 Express or SQL Server in your environment. With this knowledge you must specify the proper source selections and Global Backup Operation options for the job to ensure that the required metadata and related items for each database type are backed up.

  This approach lets you back up the affected databases, files, or both, when the backup up job is complete.

• Modify an existing Arcserve Backup Database Protection Job.

  When you modify an existing Database Protection Job, Arcserve Backup detects the type of database that is running in your environment.

  With this approach, Arcserve Backup selects the proper source selections and specifies the required Global Backup Operation options to ensure that the required metadata and related items for each database type are backed up.

Important! You should not protect the Arcserve database using multiple backup servers that do not reside in the domain that is using the Arcserve database.