Backing up the cloud servers

Primary and recovery servers are backed up by Agent for VMware, which is installed on the cloud recovery site. In the initial release, this backup is somewhat restricted in functionality as compared to 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 backup plan cannot be applied to multiple servers. Each server must have its own backup plan, even if all of the backup plans have the same settings.
• Only one backup 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.