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NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Notes and prerequisites
- NetBackup for Hyper-V prerequisites
- NetBackup for Hyper-V notes and restrictions
- NetBackup character restrictions for Hyper-V virtual machine display names
- NetBackup character restrictions for vhd or vhdx names and the VM path when the Enable file recovery from VM backup option is used
- Notes on Linux virtual machines
- Configure NetBackup communication with Hyper-V
- Configure NetBackup policies for Hyper-V
- Create a Hyper-V policy
- Limit jobs per policy on the Attributes tab (for Hyper-V)
- Virtual machine host names and display names should be unique if VMs are selected manually in the policy
- Backup options on the Hyper-V tab
- Hyper-V - Advanced attributes
- Provider type configuration parameter (VSS)
- Snapshot attribute configuration parameter (VSS)
- Virtual disk selection parameter (WMI)
- Existing snapshot handling parameter (WMI)
- Consistency level parameter (WMI)
- About the exclude disk options for virtual disk selection
- Virtual disk selection options: an example to avoid
- Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or data disks
- Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Prerequisites for alternate client backup of a virtual machine (VSS)
- Configure an alternate client backup of virtual machines
- Requirements for a NetBackup client inside the virtual machine
- Configure Hyper-V Intelligent Policies
- About Hyper-V Intelligent Policy (automatic selection of virtual machines for backup)
- The basics of a NetBackup query rule
- Important notes on Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
- NetBackup requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
- Setting up Hyper-V Intelligent Policy: Task overview
- Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines
- Create a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection
- Edit or remove a query in Basic mode
- Use the Query builder in Advanced mode
- AND vs. OR in queries
- Examples for the NetBackup Query builder
- The IsSet operator in queries
- About selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies
- Order of operations in queries (precedence rules)
- Parentheses in compound queries
- Query rules for virtual machine Notes that contain a newline character
- Query builder field reference
- Test query screen for Hyper-V
- Test Query: Failed virtual machines
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on VM Name column in Test query results
- Restore a VM that was backed up with a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and that has a pass-through disk
- NetBackup Hyper-V for SCVMM
- Windows Server failover cluster support
- Back up and restore Hyper-V
- Back up Hyper-V virtual machines
- WMI backup method: State of the virtual machine before and after restore
- Notes on individual file restore
- Notes on full virtual machine restore
- About restoring individual files
- Restore individual Hyper-V files to a host that has a NetBackup client
- Restore options for restore of Hyper-V individual files
- Restore individual Hyper-V files to a shared location on the virtual machine
- Restore the full Hyper-V virtual machine
- Restore Options
- About restoring common files
- The BAR interface may list Hyper-V snapshot files when you browse to restore Hyper-V VM files
- Use Accelerator to back up Hyper-V
- About the NetBackup Accelerator for virtual machines
- Accelerator: full vs. incremental schedules
- How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
- Accelerator notes and requirements for virtual machines
- Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
- Accelerator requires the OptimizedImage attribute
- Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
- Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
- NetBackup logs for Accelerator with virtual machines
- About reporting the amount of Accelerator backup data that was transferred over the network
- Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output
- Best practices and more information
- Scan for malware
- Troubleshooting
- NetBackup logs for Hyper-V and how to create them
- Errors during policy creation
- NetBackup status codes related to Hyper-V
- Backup job hangs for multiple virtual machines
- View or resize Windows NTFS shadow storage
- The Hyper-V integration component is not installed
- LDM volumes and status code 1
- Hyper-V snapshots (avhd or avhdx files) and status code 1
- When backing up the virtual machines that reside on the same CSV, Windows warning 1584 can be ignored
- Problems with alternate client backup
- Restored virtual machine fails to start
- Problem with a restart of a restored virtual machine: Why did the computer shut down unexpectedly?
- Problems with restore of individual files
- Problems with restore of the full virtual machine
- Unable to change virtual disk settings for a VM after restore if the VM had user checkpoints during a backup that used the WMI method
- Increasing the WMI create disk time-out value
- Linux VMs and persistent device naming
- Appendix A. VSS backup method: Hyper-V online and offline backups
- Appendix B. Hyper-V pass-through disks
- About Hyper-V pass-through disks with NetBackup
- Configurations for backing up pass-through disks
- Requirements for backing up Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Restrictions for Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Configure a local snapshot backup of Hyper-V pass-through disks
- About alternate client backup of pass-through disks
- Configure an alternate client backup of Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Important note on VSS and disk arrays
Scanning backup images
This section describes the procedure for scanning client backup images of a particular policy for malware.
To scan policy of client backup images for malware
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- On the Malware detection page, select Scan for malware.
- In the Search by option, select Backup images.
- In the Scanner host pool option, search and select the appropriate host pool name from the list of scanner host pools listed in Select malware scanner host pool.
Note:
Scan host from the selected scan host pool must be able to access the instant access mount created on the storage server which is configured with NFS/SMB share type.
- In the search criteria, review and edit the following:
Policy name
Only supported policy types are listed.
Client name
Displays the clients that have backup images for a supported policy type.
Policy type
Displays all the supported policies which are enabled for malware scanning.
Type of backup
Copies
If the selected copy does not support instant access, then the backup image is skipped for the malware scan.
Disk pool
MSDP (PureDisk), OST (for example, Data Domain) and AdvancedDisk storage type disk pools are listed.
Disk type
MSDP (PureDisk), OST (for example, Data Domain) and AdvancedDisk disk types are listed.
Infection status
The malware infected status of the backup images can be searched based on the following types: infection detected by malware scan, file hash search, not infected, not scanned or all.
For the Select the timeframe of backups, verify the date and the time range or update it.
Click Search.
Select the search criteria and ensure that the selected scan host is active and available.
- From the Select the backups to scan table select one or more images for scan.
- Click Scan for malware.
- After the scan is initiated, the Scan status is displayed.
The following are the status fields:
Not scanned
Not infected
Infected
Failed
Hover over the status to view the reason for the failed scan.
Note:
Any backup images that fail the validation are ignored. Malware scanning is supported for the backup images that are stored on storage with instant access capability and for the supported policy types only.
In progress
Pending
Note:
You can cancel the malware scan for one or more in progress and pending jobs.