Back up and restore your VMware Aria Operations system regularly to avoid downtime and data loss in case of a system failure. If your system does fail, you can restore the system to the last full or incremental backup.

You can back up and restore VMware Aria Operations single or multi-node clusters by using vSphere Data Protection or other backup tools. You can perform full, differential, and incremental backups and restores of virtual machines.

To back up and restore VMware Aria Suite components by using vSphere Data Protection and NetBackup, see VMware Aria Suite Backup and Restore by Using Veritas NetBackup.

To back up and restore VMware Aria Suite single or multi-node clusters using EMC Avamar and to perform on-demand group backup, see VMware Aria Suite Backup and Restore by Using EMC Avamar.

To back up and restore VMware Aria Operations single or multi-node clusters using the Veeam Backup & Replication tool, see About Veeam Backup & Replication.

It is highly recommended to take a backup during quiet periods. Since a snapshot based backup happens at the block level, it is important that there are limited or no changes being performed by a user on the cluster configuration. This will ensure that you have a healthy backup.

It is best to take the cluster offline before you back up the VMware Aria Operations nodes. This will ensure the data consistency across the nodes and internally in the node. You can either shut down the VM before the backup or activate quiescing.

If the cluster remains online, backup your VMware Aria Operations multi-node cluster by using vSphere Data Protection or other backup tools, deactivate quiescing of the file system.

Note: All nodes are backed up and restored at the same time. You cannot back up and restore individual nodes.

You can use the Site Recovery Manager to protect your VMware Aria Suite components. The VMware Aria Suite Disaster Recovery by Using Site Recovery Manager is a disaster recovery automation software that provides policy-based management, non-disruptive testing, and automated orchestration. For more information, see VMware Aria Suite Disaster Recovery by Using Site Recovery Manager.