Veritas NetBackup™ 8.0 for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks
- Restoring individual files
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
- Appendix E. SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines
About the SYMCquiesce utility
This topic applies to NetBackup for VMware.
Note:
Support for the SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines is due to be discontinued in an upcoming NetBackup release. Newer operating systems provide native support for a similar functionality. Please contact your operating system vendor and VMware for additional information.
The SYMCquiesce utility allows NetBackup to quiesce the Linux file system. Without this utility, NetBackup cannot guarantee that all required data has been flushed to disk when the snapshot occurs. Any data that has not been flushed to disk (still in memory) is not included in the snapshot. In that case, the data that is captured in the snapshot is incomplete.
The SYMCquiesce utility quiesces the Linux file system, to guarantee that all data has been flushed from memory to disk. Quiescing the file system allows any pending data changes to finish before the snapshot occurs. The data in the snapshot is complete.
Refer to the following Veritas documents for updates on NetBackup support for VMware:
NetBackup Enterprise Server and Server OS Software Compatibility List available from the following location:
Support for NetBackup in virtual environments:
Note:
The SYMCquiesce utility is not required for Windows virtual machines.