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
Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines
This topic describes the options on the policy Clients tab for Hyper-V policies.
You can use these options to manually select virtual machines, or to configure NetBackup to select virtual machines automatically. For automatic selection, you specify the selection criteria (rules) in the policy's Query Builder. When the backup job runs, NetBackup discovers the virtual machines that currently meet the criteria and backs up those virtual machines.
A procedure is available:
See Creating a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection.
Table: Virtual machine selection options (not available on the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard panel)
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Server Type | Select the type of environment in which NetBackup searches for the VMs to back up. |
Server Name | Enter the name of the Hyper-V server or SCVMM server. For a clustered environment, note:
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Select manually | Click this option and click to manually enter virtual machines names, or to browse and select them from a list. See Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines. Note: The rest of the fields and options are for automatic selection of virtual machines. |
Select automatically through Hyper-V Intelligent Policy query | Click this option to allow NetBackup to automatically select virtual machines for backup based on the rules that you enter in the Query Builder. |
Table: Query Builder
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Query Builder (Join, Field, Operator, Values) | Use these pull-down fields to define rules for automatic selection of virtual machines. From left to right, each pull-down refines the rule. Click the plus sign to add the rule to the Query pane. Click the reset icon (curved arrow) to blank out the pull-down fields. |
Advanced | Places the Query Builder in Advanced Mode for manual entry of rules. See Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode. |
Basic | Returns the Query Builder from Advanced Mode to Basic Mode. |
Edit | Use this option to change an existing query rule when in Basic Mode, as follows:
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Remove | Deletes a query rule when in Basic Mode. Click on the rule and then click . |
Test Query | Click this option to test which virtual machines NetBackup selects based on the rules in the Query Builder. Note: This test option does not create the backup list for the policy. When the next backup runs from this policy, NetBackup re-discovers virtual machines and consults the query rules. At that time, NetBackup backs up the virtual machines that match the rules. See Test Query screen for Hyper-V. As an alternative, you can use the nbdiscover command to test a query. Refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide. |