NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. Managing VMware servers
    1.  
      Add VMware servers
    2.  
      Validate and update VMware server credentials
    3.  
      Browse VMware servers
    4.  
      Remove VMware servers
    5.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    6.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    7.  
      Add a VMware access host
    8.  
      Remove a VMware access host
    9.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    3. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Create an instant access VM
    2.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    3.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    4.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    5. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
  6. Instant rollback
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant rollback
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant rollback feature
    3.  
      Instant rollback from a VM backup image
  7. Continuous data protection
    1.  
      CDP terminology
    2.  
      CDP Architecture
    3.  
      About continuous data protection
    4.  
      Prerequisites
    5.  
      Capacity-based licensing for CDP
    6.  
      Configuring CDP
    7.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Sizing considerations
    9.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    10.  
      Controlling full sync
    11.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    12.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    13.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    14.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    15.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  9. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks

Refer to the following table if you encounter restore issues for a backup that was configured to exclude virtual disks.

Table: Issues with excluding virtual disks

Issue

Explanation

The boot disk was backed up even though it was excluded from the backup.

The virtual machine only has a boot disk and no other disks.

The boot disk is part of a managed volume (Windows LDM or Linux LVM). NetBackup can only exclude a boot disk if it is fully contained on a single disk.

The virtual machine's boot disk is an independent disk and has no other disks.

NetBackup was not able to identify the boot disk. The boot disk must include the boot partition and the system or the boot directory.

A restored boot disk has no data.

The boot disk is an independent disk. NetBackup cannot back up the data in this type of disk.

A restored virtual machine has a disk that contains missing or incomplete data.

The disk that has missing or incomplete data was excluded from the backup.

A data disk (or disks) was backed up even though it was excluded from the backup.

The virtual machine has only one disk (such as C:). In this case, the single drive is backed up and is not excluded.

A virtual machine is restored to an unexpected state.

You added a disk to the virtual machine and changed the settings that exclude disks. However, you did not create a backup of the entire virtual machine after you made the change.

Not all files can be restored individually.

If you remove disks from the custom attribute value between the differential backups, only those files that changed since the last backup can be restored individually. Alternatively, you can restore the entire virtual disk or the VM. After the next full backup, you can restore any of the files individually.

If you remove controllers from Specific disks to be excluded between the differential backups, only those files that changed since the last backup are available for restore. All files are available for restore after the next full backup.