Hello.  Just a couple of clarifications....

>>  you need to enable change block tracking on each vm

[G]:  NetBackup automatically enables Changed Block Tracking when the "Block 
Level Incremental Backup" checkbox is selected on the policy.  This is done for 
every VM that is defined in this policy.  No need to manually enable this on 
every VM.

>>  change backups using time stamps instead of archive bits

[G]:  This is only required on the Windows VMware Backup Host(s).  This 
attribute does not need to be set for every VM being protected.

>>  making the UUID based quiescing for windows 2008 servers (theres a symantec 
>> article on this).

[G]: Not sure what this is referring to.

Hope this helps!

-George Winter
Symantec Corporation

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Hi Howard, i just did some testing recently too using the network (instead of 
SAN).  it was fairly easy to set up once the correct permissions were set in 
vCenter.  Our esx hosts are connected with 10GB and the vm guests are at 1GB, 
so the backups using the API was much faster.  i was able to restore full vmdks 
from the backup and found that the nb client is required if you want to restore 
files back to the original vm guest.  our paint point is the config 
requirements to get this done to each vm guest.  for example, you need to 
enable change block tracking on each vm, change backups using time stamps 
instead of archive bits, and making the UUID based quiescing for windows 2008 
servers (theres a symantec article on this).

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