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NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.1)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup for KVM
  2. Installation and configuration overview
    1. Planning the installation for NetBackup for KVM
      1.  
        Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
      2.  
        NetBackup server and client requirements
    2.  
      NetBackup configuration overview
  3. Managing KVM hosts
    1.  
      Add KVM hosts
    2. About KVM discovery
      1.  
        Change the autodiscovery frequency of KVM assets
      2.  
        Discover KVM host assets manually
    3.  
      Browse KVM assets
    4.  
      Validate a KVM host
    5.  
      Remove a KVM host
    6.  
      Change resource limits for KVM resource types
  4. Configuring RBAC roles for KVM administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the KVM administrator
    2.  
      Assigning permissions at specific KVM object levels
  5. Protecting KVM virtual machines
    1. About configuring a backup policy for KVM
      1.  
        Limitations for KVM backups
    2.  
      About automatic virtual machine selection
    3.  
      Add a policy for KVM
    4.  
      About policy attributes
    5.  
      Schedule properties
    6.  
      Add KVM hosts to a policy
    7. Configure a query to select KVM virtual machines for backup
      1.  
        Query builder reference for KVM virtual machines
      2.  
        Use Advanced mode to create a query for virtual machine selection
      3.  
        Example queries to select VMs for backup
      4.  
        Test a VM query
      5.  
        About the Reuse VM selection query results option
    8. Backup options on the KVM attributes tab
      1.  
        Optimizations options (KVM)
      2.  
        Primary VM identifier options (KVM)
      3.  
        NetBackup character restrictions for the Primary VM identifier
      4.  
        Existing snapshot handling options (KVM)
      5.  
        KVM - Advanced attributes
    9.  
      View the protection status of KVM virtual machines
    10.  
      Perform a manual backup
  6. Recovering KVM virtual machines
    1.  
      Considerations and limitations for KVM recovery
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover a KVM virtual machine
  7. Troubleshooting KVM backups and recovery
    1.  
      NetBackup logging for KVM
    2.  
      Configuring VxMS logging
    3.  
      Troubleshooting a KVM discovery or a validate operation

Optimizations options (KVM)

The following options set the type and scope of the KVM virtual machine backup.

Table: Optimizations

Option

Description

Enable file recovery from VM backup

This option allows restore of individual files from the backup. With or without this option, you can restore the entire virtual machine.

To perform a KVM backup to a deduplication storage unit, select this option. This option provides the best deduplication rates.

To back up a virtual machine that contains Arctera InfoScale volumes, disable this option. Also make sure that the Exclude deleted blocks option is disabled.

Note:

For a Linux virtual machine, the name of an LVM volume can include any of the following special characters: . (period), _ (underscore), - (hyphen). No other special characters are supported. If other special characters are in the volume name, the Enable file recovery from VM backup option does not work. As a result, you cannot restore individual files from that volume.

Exclude deleted blocks

Reduces the size of the backup image by excluding any unused or deleted blocks within the file system on the virtual machine. This option supports the following file systems: Windows NTFS, and Linux ext2, ext3, ext4, and XFS.

This option uses proprietary mapping technology to identify vacant sectors (allocated but empty) within the file system.

To back up a virtual machine that contains Arctera InfoScale volumes, disable this option. Also make sure that the Enable file recovery from VM backup option is disabled.

Exclude swap and paging files

Reduces the size of the backup image by excluding the data in the guest OS system paging file (Windows) or the swap file (Linux).

Note:

This option does not exclude the swapping and paging files from the backup: it only excludes the data in those files. If the files are restored, they are restored as empty files.

Note:

For a Linux virtual machine, this option disables the swap file when you restore the virtual machine. You must reconfigure the swap file after the virtual machine is restored. To allow the virtual machine to be restored with its swap file enabled, do not select Exclude swap and paging files.