Backing up the cloud servers
Primary and recovery servers are backed up by Agent for VMware, which is installed on the cloud site. In the initial release, this backup is somewhat restricted in functionality as compared to a backup performed by local agents. These limitations are temporary and will be removed in future releases.
- The only possible backup location is the cloud storage.
- A protection plan cannot be applied to multiple servers. Each server must have its own protection plan, even if all of the protection plans have the same settings.
- Only one protection plan can be applied to a server.
- Application-aware backup is not supported.
- Encryption is not available.
- Backup options are not available.
When you delete a primary server, its backups are also deleted.
A recovery server is backed up only in the failover state. Its backups continue the backup sequence of the original server. When a failback is performed, the original server can continue this backup sequence. So, the backups of the recovery server can only be deleted manually or as a result of applying the retention rules. When a recovery server is deleted, its backups are always kept.
The protection plans for cloud servers are performed according to UTC time.