# Protecting Applications

This section describes Storware Backup & Recovery **generic mechanism** for multiple scenarios where VM-level backup may not be enough.

With Storware Backup & Recovery you can prepare a custom script or invoke any backup command that produces backup artifacts (or just initiates an external backup process) on a remote host and stores backups to your backup provider.

With Application the backup you can extend your protection capabilities to:

* any remote applications with their own mechanisms
* hypervisor configuration
* files on remote hosts (physical, virtual, or containers)
  * this includes shares, mounted object-storage buckets, LVM block devices, or virtually anything which can be presented as a file
* initiating external backup processes such as RMAN

Storware Backup & Recovery internal DB backup mechanism also uses Application backup. The mechanism uses predefined artifacts that simply need to be configured according to your needs.

In the [Application](/70/protecting-applications/applications.md) section, you can read how the **generic mechanism** works and know what application Storware Backup & Recovery can protect.

In the [Backup & Restore](/70/protecting-applications/backup-and-restore.md) section, you can find information about using Storware Backup & Recovery to protect your application.


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