When we talk about backup, most people automatically think about the backup of the View desktops or the data within them. Only a very small set of View desktops need backup regularly, these are mostly persistent desktops for Admin or for special development purposes. In my opinion, the general View desktop doesn't need backup. All data that users touch should be on fileservers and the View desktop just a tool that can be redeployed on demand.
In regards of backup, each View environment splits up in three containers: VMware View Servers, vSphere, and infrastructure. Each of these components has its own backup requirements. But all these requirements need to be aligned as shown in the following diagram: