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)
Job types for Instant Recovery for VMware
Instant Recovery jobs appear as the following job types in the NetBackup Activity Monitor.
Table: VMware Instant Recovery job types in the Activity Monitor
Job type | Description |
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VM Instant Recovery | This job is the parent job for restoring a VM by means of Instant Recovery. To complete this job, you must enter one of the following: nbrestorevm -ir_done instant recovery ID nbrestorevm -ir_deactivate instant recovery ID For details on these commands: See Restoring a virtual machine with Instant Recovery for VMware. |
Activate Instant Recovery | The parent VM Instant Recovery job starts an Activate Instant Recovery job to create the VM on the ESX host. |
Stop Instant Recovery | This job runs when you use nbrestorevm -ir_done to remove the NetBackup NFS datastore and release its resources on the media server. |
Deactivate Instant Recovery | This job runs when you use nbrestorevm -ir_deactivate to delete the restored VM from the ESX host. |
Reactivate Instant Recovery | This job runs when you use nbrestorevm with the ir_reconfigure option to restart an interrupted virtual machine recovery. |