Backing up SQL Server applications

With R‑Cloud, you can back up your SQL Server application data securely and efficiently.

Important  Before you start backing up your SQL Server applications, make sure that you are familiar with all the prerequisites, limitations, considerations, and/or recommendations related to the instances on which these applications are running. For details, see Backing up instances.

To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click Applications Applications.

Procedure

  1. In the Applications panel, select the applications that you want to back up.

    Tip  To narrow down the list of displayed applications, you can use the filtering options as described in Filtering and sorting data.

  2. Click Set Policy Set Policy.

  3. From the list of available policies, select the preferred policy.

  4. Click Assign to assign the policy to the selected applications.

After you assign a policy to an application, a backup task starts immediately. Subsequent backups are scheduled according to the values defined in the policy.

If required, you can also perform a manual backup of any application at any time. For details, see Performing manual backups.