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)
Allowing other servers or clients to restore virtual machines
You can configure NetBackup to allow nbrestorevm to run from another host (such as another server, client, or virtual machine). The enabled host can use nbrestorevm to restore the virtual machine. The host must be configured as a peer of the NetBackup master server that performed the backup.
You can configure the peer in either of the following ways:
In the NetBackup Administration Console, click Additional servers tab.
. Add the peer on theAdd an empty peer_name file in the following location:
UNIX, Linux
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/peer_name
Windows
install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\peer_name
The name of the file is the name of the server or client to be granted restore privileges.
For instructions, see the topics on allowing clients to perform redirected restores, in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Vol I.