# Getting Started with Agent-Based Application Backups

The process for configuring and performing agent-based application backups varies depending on the hypervisor and the applications you are protecting.

## Step 1: Before You Begin

- Identify the hypervisors, backup methods, and applications that can be used for agent-based application backups.

- Review all requirements for agent-based application backups.

  Requirements include general product requirements, source VM configuration, storage considerations, hypervisor considerations, and application requirements.

## Step 2: Prepare the Environment

- For firewalled environments, ensure communication and enable remote installations for VMs that run applications.

## Step 3: Configuration

- Configure credentials for the hypervisor instance, for a subclient, or for specific VMs.

- Configure a VSA subclient that identifies the VMs to protect for each application.

  The VM that you must identify in subclient content depends on the application.

Other configuration tasks depend on your requirements.

## Step 4: Backup Operations

- Perform a backup operation for the VSA subclient that identifies VMs that run the applications that you are protecting.

## Step 5: Recover Data

- From the client for the application, perform a restore operation.

  Restore operations are always performed from the application client, not the VSA subclient. The type of data you can recover depends on the application.

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