Use Hardware Snapshot for Agent-based Backup
Follow these steps:
- Verify if the following prerequisites are met:
- Install a VSS hardware provider that supports hardware snapshot on the Arcserve UDP Agents. A typical configuration of a VSS hardware provider includes:
- Specifying a server that controls the LUN.
- Specifying the disk array credentials to access the disk array.
- Note: For more information on configuring the VSS hardware provider, contact your hardware provider vendor.
- Log in to the Console and create a plan for backup.
- Note: For more information on creating an agent-based plan for Windows, see How to Create a Windows Backup Plan.
- Verify that you have selected the Use hardware snapshot wherever possible option in the Advanced tab.
- Save the plan and submit the backup job.
The backup job runs using the storage snapshot.