Introducing NetVault Plug-in for VMware
Installing the plug-in
About plug-in editions
Deployment overview
Prerequisites
Installing the plug-in
Removing the plug-in
Configuring the plug-in
Adding a server
Reconfiguring a server
Removing a server
Supported transport modes
Configuring default settings
Enabling or disabling CBT on virtual machines
Defining a backup strategy
About CBT
Enabling CBT on individual virtual machines
Disabling CBT on a virtual machine
Manually disabling CBT on a virtual machine
Enabling or disabling quiescing of virtual machines
About quiescing virtual machines
Enabling quiescing of virtual machines
Disabling quiescing of virtual machines
Removing backup preferences for a virtual machine
Unlocking a virtual machine
About backup methods and types
Data backed up and restored for different disk types
Backup and recovery strategy
Using the image-level backup method
Adding patterns to use for inclusion and exclusion of virtual machines
Understanding the Distributed Jobs feature
Performing image-level backups
Continuous data protection backups
Using the file-level backup method
A continuous backup job supports continuous data protection of data by taking an incremental backup of your data every specified amount of time. Synthetic full backups include all of the changes that have been made since the previous backup. The amount of
Prerequisite
Performing continuous backups
Restarting a backup job
Resetting CBT on a virtual machine
Monitoring job progress
Performing file-level backups
Performing file-level continuous backups
Removing the snapshot and mount folder manually
Restoring image-level backups
About restoring image-level backups
Restoring a full virtual machine or individual virtual drives
Relocating a virtual machine to an alternate ESXi Server
Restoring a virtual machine to an alternate vCenter Server
Renaming a virtual machine during restore
Performing file-level restores from image-level backups
Recovering a virtual machine using Instant Restore
Restoring virtual machine disk and configuration files
Searching for files in savesets
Viewing media list
Restoring file-level backups
About restoring file-level backups
Restoring file-level backups using shared network drives
Restoring file-level backups using the built-in Plug-in for FileSystem
Searching for files in savesets
Viewing media list
Troubleshooting
Common errors
NetVault Service fails to start on Windows
NetVault Service fails to start after the machine is restarted
NetVault Service starts, but stops immediately on Linux
Linux Hybrid version of the plug-in does not run on 64-bit OS
Crash occurs during a backup
CBT-based image-level backup fails
SAN transport reports errors when multiple backups access the same datastore
Default SCSI controller type on RHEL 7 and RHEL 6
File-level backups do not back up data for a reparse point
Restore job fails when using SAN transport
Restore job fails to add a virtual machine to the server inventory or to the alternate standalone ESXi Server
Disk type is always Thick Provision Eager Zeroed after restoring an image-level backup
Backup jobs of virtual machines protected by vSphere FT fail intermittently
RDM disks are restored to VMDK files
Unable to consolidate image-level backups
Restore job fails on Linux when file size exceeds 50 MB
Web Service process displays message that indicates the server is unavailable
Installing an update puts the VMware Vstor2 MntApi driver into an inconsistent state
Backing up and restoring encrypted disks
Backing up a cloned virtual machine that has the same UUID
Backing up virtual machines that are protected by vSphere FT
Error using VVols with a storage array
Backup proxy opens in NBD mode instead of HotAdd transport mode
Diagnosing virtual machine issues
SOAP messages
Generating VDDK logs
Viewing media list
The Media List option on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page lets you view information about the media items used to store a backup. You can view details about the data segments and index segments for a backup.
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On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, select the applicable saveset. |
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Backup size: This area shows the total size of the saveset in number of bytes. |
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Data segment table: This table shows information about the media items that contain the data segments. You can view the following details: media label, media group label, stream ID, starting byte number, ending byte number, and media location. |
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Index segment table: This table shows information about the media items that contain the index segments. You can view the media label and media location. |
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Restoring file-level backups
About restoring file-level backups
The Plug‑in for VMware provides the following methods for restoring file-level backups.
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Restores using shared network drives: This method does not require an instance of NetVault Client running inside the virtual machine. Restores are performed to the shared network drives on the virtual machines, using the Plug-in for FileSystem installed on the plug-in host. Since the Plug-in for FileSystem is automatically installed on the NetVault Client, no additional software is required for this type of restore. |
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Restores using native Plug-in for FileSystem: This method is suitable if an instance of NetVault Client is already running inside the virtual machine. The virtual machine is treated as any other physical NetVault Client for the file system restores. |
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Restores using file-level indexing for continuous data protection (CDP) backups: When restoring files from a CDP backup, the file-level indexing occurs automatically during the restore process rather than the backup process. This method reduces the amount of time required for a backup job. File-level recovery of a CDP backup is only available with a QoreStor storage device version 7.1.2 or later. |
