Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Validating VMware virtualization server certificates in NetBackup
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- Exclude Disks tab
- 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 by using Backup, Archive, and Restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using NetBackup commands
- Restoring individual VMware virtual machine 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 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
Overview of the VMware backup process
The following table describes the phases in the NetBackup backup process.
Table: NetBackup backup process
Phase | Description |
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Phase 1 | The NetBackup master server initiates the backup. |
Phase 2 | The NetBackup client on the VMware backup host initiates a VMware snapshot on the virtual machine. |
Phase 3 | Windows: VSS synchronizes the file system on the virtual machine. Linux: If snapshot quiesce is enabled in the Linux guest OS, the file system is synchronized on the virtual machine. (Contact your operating system vendor and VMware for additional information on how to enable snapshot quiesce.) |
Phase 4 | The VMware server creates a snapshot on the virtual disk datastore. |
Phase 5 | The NetBackup client reads the snapshot from the datastores and writes the data to the NetBackup storage unit. |