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)
Refreshing the display of virtual environment changes in the Query Builder
By default, NetBackup waits one hour before the policy Query Builder detects changes in the virtual environment. Until one hour has passed, the Query Builder does not detect the changes when you click the "Load values" folder icon next to the Value(s) field. To make the changes immediately available to the Value(s) field, use the following procedure to refresh the display.
Note:
The Query Builder's
option does not affect the display of virtual environment changes in the Query Builder. The reuse option determines how long NetBackup reuses the current backup list for future executions of the policy.To refresh the Query Builder's view of the virtual environment (Windows):
- On the Windows desktop of the local host, click Start > Run and enter regedit.
- To be on the safe side, make a backup of the current registry (File > Export).
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Veritas > NetBackup > CurrentVersion > Config and create a key that is called BACKUP.
- Under BACKUP, create a new DWORD that is called xmlCacheLimit.
- Set this DWORD to the number of seconds for the refresh.
A value of 15 allows the Query Builder to be refreshed after 15 seconds.
- If the policy editor is open in the NetBackup Administration Console, close it and reopen it.
To refresh the Query Builder's view of the virtual environment (Linux):
- On the Linux desktop of the local host, create (or open) the following file:
/usr/openv/netbackup/virtualization.conf
- Enter a new dword line under [BACKUP] to set the number of seconds for the refresh. For example:
[BACKUP] "xmlCacheLimit"=dword:15
This example allows the Query Builder to be refreshed after 15 seconds.
Note:
If the file already contains a [BACKUP] line, do not add another [BACKUP] line. Any other lines that already exist under [BACKUP] should remain as they are.
- Save the file.
- If the policy editor is open in the NetBackup Administration Console, close it and reopen it.