NOTE: Due to a limitation in the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 7.0, Plug‑in for VMware may not support browsing Resilient File System (ReFS) volumes on guest operating systems when the VMware proxy server uses Windows 2019. |
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In the Navigation pane, click Create Continuous Backup Job to start the configuration wizard. |
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In Job Name, specify a name for the job. |
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In the Selections list, select an existing Backup Selection Set, or complete the following steps to create a set: |
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NOTE: To switch between the two views (Hosts and Clusters and VMs and Templates), click the ESXi or vCenter Server, and select Toggle Inventory View from the context menu. This option is only available when server node is open. |
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Back up all virtual machines within a container: Select the container node. Data selection is possible at all levels, starting from the Datacenter node. For example, to back up all virtual machines hosted on an ESXi server, select the host node; in the VMs and Templates view, select the corresponding folder node. |
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Back up individual virtual machines: Open the applicable container nodes, for example, Datacenter, Cluster, and Resource Pool, and select the virtual machines that you want to back up. In the VMs and Templates view, open the folder node, and select the virtual machines that you want to back up. |
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Back up individual virtual drives: Open the virtual machine node, and select the disks that you want to back up. The virtual drives are named “Hard Disk 1,” “Hard Disk 2,” … “Hard Disk n.” The plug-in only lists those disks for which it can generate a snapshot. |
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In the Plugin Options list, select an existing Backup Options Set, or complete the following steps to create a set: |
IMPORTANT: On Windows, when you create a Backup Options Set for image‑level backups, you must use the default set “Default Backup Options — VMware Plugin — Windows” as the template. If you use any other set as the template, the backup may fail. |
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Under Virtual machine disk selection options, select one of the following options. |
To back up all available virtual drives for the selected virtual machines, use this option. | |
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Under Other Options, configure the following settings: |
If a backup job includes any unsupported disk types, this option is ignored for those disks. | |
When you run a backup job, the plug-in creates a snapshot named “BKB_SNAP” on the virtual machine to back up the selected data. Regardless of whether the backup completes successfully or fails, the plug‑in removes the snapshot on job completion. The plug-in also removes the snapshot if the job is stopped or the parent or child processes are terminated for any reason. However, if a job exits abnormally, the cleanup process may fail to remove the snapshot. To address such cases, the plug‑in provides an option to delete the snapshot when you run the job next time. You can select the Remove snapshots from previous backups check box to remove any existing snapshots when you run the current job. Only the snapshots named “BKB_SNAP” are removed from the virtual machines. This option does not remove any other snapshots that exist on the virtual machine. | |
The actual number of parallel streams for a job depends on the following factors: For parallel backups, the plug-in generates a parent process that coordinates the overall backup and individual child processes that perform the actual task of backing up the virtual machines. The maximum child processes that can be generated for a backup job is equal to the Maximum Number of Parallel Streams configured for the job. The parent and the child processes are all created on the NetVault Client on which the plug-in is running. When configuring Maximum Number of Parallel Streams, consider the following: | |
For more information about the Diagnose method, see Diagnosing virtual machine issues. You can access the Diagnostic Results dialog box from the View Logs page. The details are stored as log context objects. | |
Disable distribution of backup job to other VMware Backup Proxy |
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If you are using the Distributed Jobs feature and you want to set the transport mode manually at the job level, select this option, and then select the applicable Primary Transport Mode and Fallback Transport Mode. |
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In the Schedule window, set the number of hours you want to have between each incremental snapshot. The minimum value is 1 hour. |
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Click Save. |
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Click Save. |
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Optionally, select Make Backup immutable. |
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Click Save. |
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CAUTION: Do not use the Run Now option on the CDP backup job. Doing so would result in inconsistencies in the synthetic full schedule and the instance number count. |
Time to copy only the changes in the backup, Very fast, preferred | ||||
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Because VMware does not support CBT for virtual machines with FT enabled, all sectors on the disks are always backed up for such a virtual machine even if Enable Change Block Tracking for virtual machine is selected. This behavior is true for both Full and Incremental Backup jobs. |
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Creates a non-CBT Full Backup, unless CBT is already enabled for the virtual machine or you have selected the Enable Change Block Tracking for virtual machine check box for the Incremental or Differential Backup. |
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When you select Incremental Backup, the plug-in creates a Full Backup of MyVM2 in Step 4 and an Incremental Backup of that virtual machine in Step 5. |
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When you select Differential Backup, the plug-in creates a Full Backup of MyVM2 in Step 4 and Step 5 because these backups are based on the last Full Backup created in Step 2. |
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