I am using the native SQL Server backup procedures to back up all databases to a network share. In addition to this, we run Netbackup VMware VMDK backups on the full machines. In the Netbackup policy, the "SQL Server Recovery" option is NOT enabled. However, when this policy runs, records get inserted into the SQL backup history tables (msdb.dbo.backupset and msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily). This doesn't seem right to me. Why is a SQL Server level backup being initiated by Netbackup if the SQL Server application-level protection is not selected? Shouldn't this backup be completely transparent to SQL Server since it is effective a disk backup?
Here's a screenshot showing the Netbackup policy configuration
Below is the backup history as reported by the SQL Server backup history tables. Highlighted are the virtual device names from when the Netbackup policy runs. The other records are my native SQL Server backups.
