Universal Application-Item Recovery (U-AIR) is one of the most useful advanced features in Veeam Backup & Replication. It allows for single item restore for several applications, such as Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange. In addition to this, it also lets the administrator restore single files from both Microsoft Windows and Linux-based VMs as shown in Chapter 3, Restoring Data. In order to use application-item recovery, there needs to be a corresponding SureBackup job as this is the basis for the virtual lab environment that is created on demand.

To be able to restore single application items such as user accounts or groups from Microsoft Active Directory, all the dependencies need to be put into an application group to ensure that the virtual lab that is created for restore purposes is a copy of the production environment. In the case of Microsoft Exchange, this application group needs to contain an Active...