You can successfully prepare the VMware Aria Suite components for backup by planning and using these basic guidelines. VMware Aria Components Backup OrderYou must back up the VMs for VMware Aria Suite components in a specific order. vRealize Business Preparations for Backing UpTo minimize system downtime and data loss in the event of failures, administrators must back up the vRealize Business Standard installation regularly. If your system fails, you can recover it by restoring the last known working backup. Back up vRealize Business by exporting or cloning the virtual appliance. Use backups to restore the virtual appliance. VMware Aria Operations for Logs Preparations for Backing UpYou can perform full, differential, and incremental backups and restores of VMware Aria Operations for Logs VMs. VMware Aria Operations Preparations for Backing UpTo minimize VMware Aria Operations downtime and data loss in the event of failure, back up regularly. If your system fails, you can recover it by restoring to the last full or incremental backup. VMware Automation Orchestrator Preparations for Backing UpYou must backup your VMware Automation Orchestrator VMs at the same time. You can also back up the VMware Automation Orchestrator elements that you modified. VMware Aria Automation 7.x Preparations for Backing UpA system administrator backs up the full VMware Aria Automation installation on a regular basis. Plan the backup around efficiencies and periods of low activity. VMware Aria Automation 8.x Preparations for Backing UpA system administrator backs up the full VMware Aria Automation installation regularly. Plan the backup around efficiencies and periods of lesser activities.