After you implement the Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution, backing up the newly-added components ensures that you can keep your environment operational if a data loss or failure occurs.
After you deploy the Site Protection and Disaster Recovery Solution, backing up the components ensures that you can keep your environment operational if a data loss or failure occurs. You implement scheduled backups to prepare for:
- A critical failure of any management component
- An upgrade of any management component
- Updating the certificate of any management component
You take the following backup types:
- Scheduled backups, which ensure that at any given point in time, you can restore from a recent backup.
- Manual backups before a system update, which ensure that if the operation is unsuccessful, you can restore to a point in time immediately before the operation.
- Manual backups after a recovery of a failed part of the system.
To back up Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication, you use the configuration import/export capability on the appliances. See Exporting and Importing Site Recovery Manager Configuration Data.
