{"id":4565,"date":"2014-03-20T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msp360.com\/blog\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2021-07-04T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:21:26","slug":"ms-sql-server-cluster-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/ms-sql-server-cluster-support\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP360 Backup: MS SQL Server Cluster Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the release of the latest version of MSP360 Backup<\/a> comes the SQL Server cluster configuration support. MSP360 Backup is able to detect SQL Server cluster names and allow users to choose SQL Server instance on the \u201cMS SQL Server Instance\u201d step of the Backup Wizard.
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How to Set Up SQL Cluster Configuration<\/h2>\n
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1<\/var> Install MSP360 Backup. It is strongly recommended to install the application to the<\/strong> active cluster node<\/strong><\/p>\n

2<\/var> Run<\/strong> MSP360 Backup and open the \u201cTools<\/strong>\u201d menu.<\/p>\n

3<\/var> Click on the \u201cOptions<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

4<\/var> Go to the \u201cAdvanced<\/strong>\u201d tab. In the \u201cTemporary folder:<\/strong>\u201d field,\u00a0specify a temporary folder for SQL database backups.
\nIMPORTANT NOTE:<\/strong> The temporary folder must be a network share available from all cluster nodes.
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5<\/var> Open \u201cTools<\/strong>\u201d menu and click on the \u201cNetwork Credentials<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

6<\/var> Click \u201cAdd<\/strong>\u201d button and specify your SQL Server credentials<\/strong>.
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7<\/var> Click on the \u201cBackup MS SQL Server<\/strong>\u201d to run the Backup Wizard.<\/p>\n

8<\/var> Specify SQL Server cluster instance<\/strong> you want to back up and click \u201cNext\u201d.
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9<\/var> Finish<\/strong> with creating a backup plan as usual.<\/p>\n

10<\/var> To run a backup plan on-premises, check the \u201cRun backup now<\/strong>\u201d checkbox on the \u201cFinish\u201d screen or go to the \u201cBackup Plans\u201d tab, expand the plan and click \u201cRun backup now<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

That's it. Now you are able to backup Microsoft SQL Server clusters with MSP360 Backup. If\u00a0 you have any questions, feel free to ask on our official forum<\/a> or in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the release of the latest version of MSP360 Backup comes the SQL Server cluster configuration support. MSP360 Backup is able to detect SQL Server cluster names and allow users to choose SQL Server instance on the \u201cMS SQL Server Instance\u201d step of the Backup Wizard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,894,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp360-backup","category-msp360-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51424,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/51424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}