Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Notes and prerequisites
- NetBackup for Hyper-V prerequisites
- NetBackup for Hyper-V notes and restrictions
- NetBackup character restrictions for Hyper-V virtual machine display names
- NetBackup character restrictions for vhd or vhdx names and the VM path when the Enable file recovery from VM backup option is used
- Notes on Linux virtual machines
- Configure NetBackup communication with Hyper-V
- Configure NetBackup policies for Hyper-V
- Creating a Hyper-V policy from the Policy Configuration Wizard
- Creating a Hyper-V policy from the NetBackup Policies utility
- Limit jobs per policy on the Attributes tab (for Hyper-V)
- Virtual machine host names and display names should be unique if VMs are selected manually in the policy
- Backup options on the Hyper-V tab
- Hyper-V - Advanced Attributes
- Provider Type configuration parameter (VSS)
- Snapshot Attribute configuration parameter (VSS)
- Virtual disk selection parameter (WMI)
- Existing snapshot handling parameter (WMI)
- Consistency level parameter (WMI)
- About the exclude disk options for virtual disk selection
- Virtual disk selection options: an example to avoid
- Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or data disks
- Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Prerequisites for alternate client backup of a virtual machine (VSS)
- Configuring alternate client backup of virtual machines
- Requirements for a NetBackup client inside the virtual machine
- Configure Hyper-V Intelligent Policies
- About Hyper-V Intelligent Policy (automatic selection of virtual machines for backup)
- The basics of a NetBackup query rule
- Important notes on Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
- NetBackup requirements for Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
- Setting up Hyper-V Intelligent Policy: Task overview
- Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines
- Creating a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection
- Editing a query in Basic Mode
- Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode
- AND vs. OR in queries
- Examples for the NetBackup Query Builder
- The IsSet operator in queries
- About selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies
- Order of operations in queries (precedence rules)
- Parentheses in compound queries
- Query rules for virtual machine Notes that contain a newline character
- Query Builder field reference
- Test Query screen for Hyper-V
- Test Query: Failed virtual machines
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on VM Name column in Test query results
- Restoring a VM that was backed up with a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy and that has a pass-through disk
- NetBackup Hyper-V for SCVMM
- Windows Server failover cluster support
- About virtual machines on Windows 2008, 2012, and 2016 failover clusters
- Notes on CSV backup and restore
- Creating a policy for virtual machines in a cluster
- Location of the restored virtual machine in a cluster
- Virtual machine maintenance after a restore
- Hyper-V restore may fail if the VM was created on a CSV and the CSV is a reparse point on the destination drive
- Back up and restore Hyper-V
- Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines
- WMI backup method: State of the virtual machine before and after restore
- Notes on individual file restore
- Notes on full virtual machine restore
- About restoring individual files
- Restoring individual files to a host that has a NetBackup client
- Restore Marked Files dialog for restore of individual files
- Restoring individual files to a shared location on the virtual machine
- Restoring the full Hyper-V virtual machine
- Restore Marked Files dialog for restore of the Hyper-V virtual machine
- About restoring common files
- The BAR interface may list Hyper-V snapshot files when you browse to restore Hyper-V VM files
- Use Accelerator to back up Hyper-V
- About the NetBackup Accelerator for virtual machines
- Accelerator: full vs. incremental schedules
- How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
- Accelerator notes and requirements for virtual machines
- Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
- Accelerator requires the OptimizedImage attribute
- Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
- Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
- NetBackup logs for Accelerator with virtual machines
- About reporting the amount of Accelerator backup data that was transferred over the network
- Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- NetBackup logs for Hyper-V and how to create them
- Errors during policy creation
- NetBackup status codes related to Hyper-V
- Backup job hangs for multiple virtual machines
- Viewing or resizing Windows NTFS shadow storage
- The Hyper-V integration component is not installed
- LDM volumes and status code 1
- Hyper-V snapshots (avhd or avhdx files) and status code 1
- Unable to log in to the NetBackup Administration Console
- When backing up the virtual machines that reside on the same CSV, Windows warning 1584 can be ignored
- Problems with alternate client backup
- Restored virtual machine fails to start
- Problem with a restart of a restored virtual machine: Why did the computer shut down unexpectedly?
- Problems with restore of individual files
- Problems with restore of the full virtual machine
- Unable to change virtual disk settings for a VM after restore if the VM had user checkpoints during a backup that used the WMI method
- Increasing the WMI create disk time-out value
- Linux VMs and persistent device naming
- Appendix A. VSS backup method: Hyper-V online and offline backups
- Appendix B. Hyper-V pass-through disks
- About Hyper-V pass-through disks with NetBackup
- Configurations for backing up pass-through disks
- Requirements for backing up Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Restrictions for Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Configuring a local snapshot backup of Hyper-V pass-through disks
- About alternate client backup of pass-through disks
- Configuring an alternate client backup of Hyper-V pass-through disks
- Important note on VSS and disk arrays
- Appendix C. NetBackup commands to back up and restore Hyper-V virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a Hyper-V policy
- Using NetBackup commands to create a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
- The bpplinfo options for Hyper-V policies
- bpplinclude options for modifying query rules in Hyper-V policies
- Examples of nbrestorevm for restoring VMs to Hyper-V
- The nbrestorevm -R rename file for Hyper-V
- Notes on troubleshooting the nbrestorevm command for Hyper-V
- Logs for troubleshooting the nbrestorevm command
About reporting the amount of Accelerator backup data that was transferred over the network
For Accelerator backup reporting, several NetBackup commands can report the amount of data that is transferred over the network for each Accelerator backup. The amount of transferred data is often much less than the size of the Accelerator backup image.
For each Accelerator backup, NetBackup combines the client's (or VM's) changed blocks with the unchanged data from previous backups to synthesize a backup image. However, NetBackup sends only the changed data over the network when the backup occurs. The resulting backup image may be much larger than the amount of backup data that travels the network. For backup reporting, it may be important to distinguish between the backup image size and the amount of data that was transferred over the network.
For Accelerator backups, the network-transferred data can appear in the output of the following NetBackup commands: bpdbjobs, bpimagelist, and bpclimagelist.
Table: Default location of bpdbjobs, bpimagelist, and bpclimagelist lists the default location of these commands.
Table: Default location of bpdbjobs, bpimagelist, and bpclimagelist
Command | Default location |
|---|---|
bpdbjobs, bpimagelist | Windows:
UNIX, Linux
|
bpclimagelist | Windows:
UNIX, Linux
|
The following example uses the bpimagelist command to show the results of a backup of acmevm2:
bpimagelist -backupid acmevm2
Example output:
Note:
This example output is for a VMware backup, but the output formatting is the same for Hyper-V.
In this example, the backup image size in kilobytes is 7799632, and the amount of data that was transferred over the network is 225792.
You can use the following commands to show the amount of data that was transferred over the network for an Accelerator backup.
bpimagelist -backupid backup_id [-l | -L | -json | -json_compact]
Brackets [ ] indicate optional elements, and the vertical bars | indicate that you can choose only one of the options within the brackets.
Table: The bpimagelist options that show the amount of network-transferred data for Accelerator backups describes how the network-transferred data field appears in the bpimagelist output.
Table: The bpimagelist options that show the amount of network-transferred data for Accelerator backups
bpimagelist option | How the network-transferred data field appears |
|---|---|
No option | The field is unlabeled. For example: 225792 See the bpimagelist example output earlier in this topic. |
-l | The field is unlabeled (same as no option). For example: 225792 |
-L | The field is labeled. For example: Kilobytes Data Transferred: 225792 |
-json | The field is labeled. For example: "kilobytes_data_transferred": 225792, |
-json_compact | The field is labeled. For example: "kilobytes_data_transferred":225792, |
bpdbjobs - jobid job_id -report - most_columns
or
bpdbjobs - jobid job_id -report - all_columns
The network-transferred data field appears at the end of the output.
bpclimagelist -client client_name
This command can only show the network-transferred data in the field that normally shows the Accelerator backup image size. To show the network-transferred data with this command, you must configure a NetBackup setting:
See Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output.
Additional details on these commands are available in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide or in the NetBackup man pages.