Configuring Data Protector backup specifications

Ensure the option track the replica for instant recovery is not selected, when you create VSS transportable backup.

To prevent Data Protector from backing up content databases that are in the Granular Recovery Cache Management (in other words, to prevent Data Protector from backing up the same content databases twice), proceed with the following, depending on your configuration:

If the same Microsoft SQL Server instance is used by both Microsoft SharePoint Server and HP Data Protector Granular Recovery Extension:

When you create backup specifications, select individual content databases, and not the client, Microsoft SQL Server instance, or Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Writer.

The content databases restored by HP Data Protector Granular Recovery are named OriginalName_DataProtectorSessionID.

See Figure 3 on page 26.

Granular Recovery Extension for Microsoft SharePoint Server

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