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
Configuration options for the SYMCquiesce utility
This topic applies to NetBackup for VMware.
The SYMCquiesce utility includes a configuration file (/opt/SYMCquiesce/config) that contains the following options. By default, the options are commented out with a # character at the start of the line.
Table: SYMCquiesce configuration options
Configuration option | Description |
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fail_snapshot_on_failure=true/false | By default, this option is disabled. The snapshot does not fail even if quiescence fails on a volume in the virtual machine. Enable this option to cause the snapshot job and the backup job to fail if quiescence fails. |
timeout=timeout value in seconds | By default, this option is disabled. The SYMCquiesce utility freezes the virtual machine volumes for three seconds during the snapshot. Enable this option to change the timeout period. You may need to change this timeout if the virtual machine snapshot on the ESX server does not complete within the 3-second window. |
For example:
#fail_snapshot_on_failure=true timeout=20
In this example, the fail_snapshot_on_failure
option is commented out (disabled), and the timeout is set to 20 seconds.