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Review the Prerequisites to Back Up Microsoft Clustered Nodes and Shared Disks

Review the following prerequisite steps when backing up Microsoft Clustered Nodes and Shared Disks:

• Install the Arcserve UDP Agent on all the clustered nodes.
• Add all agents or nodes into the same backup plan.
• Review the Compatibility Matrix which provides the supported operating systems, databases, and browsers.

Note: The shared disks will be backed up along with the agent which owns the shares disks. If the shared disk is moved from Node A to Node B during a failover, then for the next backup job on Node B, the disk will be backed up as a full disk even though the job itself appears as an incremental. After another failover if the shared disk moves back to Node A, even then the disk will be backed up as a full disk even though the job itself appears as an incremental.