Re: [Veritas-bu] vmware api backups
2011-11-01 13:11:18
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From: George Winter [mailto:george_winter AT symantec DOT com]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:28 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] vmware api backups
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.
[jro] Baolin says this isn't necessary anymore, and he and Dave both say that
has been true for a couple of releases.
>> making the UUID based quiescing for windows 2008 servers (theres a symantec
>> article on this).
[G]: Not sure what this is referring to.
[jro] There is a technote that someone sent me. I couldn't find the value they
say to change, or any explanation of what it does.
Hope this helps!
-George Winter
Symantec Corporation
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:23 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] vmware api backups
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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