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Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2019-06-28
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.2)
- 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)
About the virtual machine backups that include database data
When NetBackup backs up a VMware virtual machine, database data in the virtual machine is backed up with the rest of the virtual machine. NetBackup allows the recovery of individual database files from the backup. This feature supports Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server.
Note the following:
To enable restore of individual database files, a NetBackup Windows client must be installed in the virtual machine during the backup.
NetBackup uses Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to quiesce the database before it creates a snapshot of the virtual machine.
A full backup is performed of the database data with each backup job, even if the policy schedule is incremental.