# Microsoft SharePoint Requirements for Application-Aware Backups

For Microsoft SharePoint, you can perform application-aware backups from a VM group, then recover granular data by performing mining from a SQL Server database client that is associated with the SharePoint application.

During the first application-aware backup, application plug-ins for SQL Server are installed for virtual machines that run SQL Server to support SharePoint.

Note

The targets for application-aware backups are the SQL Server databases that support SharePoint operations (SharePoint server farm), not the web servers that serve SharePoint data to users.

After a SharePoint plug-in is installed as part of an application-aware backup, set SharePoint Timer service account information in the SharePoint server properties.

## SharePoint Version Requirements

For Windows VMs running SQL Server to support Microsoft SharePoint, ensure that the following requirements are met:

- Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or a more recent version of SharePoint.

- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or a more recent version of SQL Server.

- Configure a VM group that points to a virtual machine running a SQL Server configuration database that supports SharePoint operations.

  Note

  Application-aware backups set up a maximum of two SharePoint web servers that provide front ends for SharePoint operations. Any additional SharePoint web servers that point to the same configuration database are ignored.

## Application Credentials

To perform backups and restores for SQL Server databases that support SharePoint operations, SQL sysadmin rights are required.

## VM Group Configuration

For application-aware backups of Microsoft SharePoint, the VM group content must be a virtual machine running a SQL Server configuration database that supports SharePoint operations.

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