18 Barracuda Backup Service Administrator’s Guide
Backup Configuration Overview
You can configure where your data is backed up and in what manner. This document refers to data
sources, which are subsets of data on each server that is to be backed up.
Where Data is Backed Up
Following the steps in this chapter, you configure how and when your data is to be backed up. All data
is first backed up to a local Barracuda Backup Server. If you have more than one local Barracuda
Backup Server, you must decide which one backs up which systems.
Data on the local Barracuda Backup Server can then be backed up, or replicated, to another Barracuda
Backup Server in a remote location, to the Barracuda Cloud Storage, or to a combination of the two.
See Site-to-Site Replication on page 27 for more details on the first option. The location of the
replicated data is specified for each data source. You can also choose to not replicate the backed-up
data at all.
Options for Backing Up Data
Choose the method for backing up data based on the type of data. The Barracuda Backup Server
supports the following data types:
• Microsoft Exchange storage group backup
• Microsoft SQL
• Microsoft Hyper-V storage
•Windows System State
• VMware data source support for ESX, ESXi, and vCenter
• Network file shares
• Message-level backup of Exchange and GroupWise Servers
Review the following sections for more about specific data types.
Microsoft Server Applications
The Barracuda Backup Agent provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft System State, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server.
The Barracuda Backup Agent also provides support for open file backups, and file attributes and
permissions.
Data sources that can be backed up using the Barracuda Backup Agent are automatically detected
after the computer is identified on the
BACKUP > Sources page, and the Barracuda Backup Agent is
installed on that computer.
You should install the Barracuda Backup Agent on every Windows server that you want to back up.
The only exception to this is for Windows Server 2000, where file share back up is supported.
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