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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Back up virtual machines
  4. Trial backup for VMware
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Trial backup for VMware

Trial backup for VMware allows you to perform approximate validations for the backup configuration. Trial backup operation for virtual machine performs certain operations as:

  • Discovery

  • Validation of credentials

  • Snapshot

  • Mapping of few files (In case, if you have selected the enable file recovery option in the policy).

  • Test transfer of limited bytes (to the media server) of data per disk of a virtual machine.

Note:

Trial backup support for VMware is only available through API call.

Below API can be used with input parameter trialBackup : true to initiate trial backup for VMware policy.

Before calling the trial backup API, the required policy configuration must be defined in the policy created.

API : /admin/manual-backup

Method : POST

Example: Request body

{
 "data": {

               "type":"backupRequest",

               "attributes": {

                   "policyName": "vmware_test",

                   "trialBackup" : true

               }  

     }

}

Backup job is displayed as Trial Backup.

Note:

  • trialBackup is optional parameter and its default value is false.

  • Trial backup is not recoverable. Image Clean up job does the clean up of test data which was transferred during the trial backup operation.

  • Trial backup functionality is only supported for VMware policy of VADP (VMware vStorage API for Data Protection) based backups. It will not validate application integration with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL server.

  • VMware agent resource limits are also applicable to trial backup.

  • Trial backup consumes resources like querying vCenter for discovery and there can be short-lived snapshots.

  • Trial backup doesn't affect existing schedule or incremental backup chain. Though, it may impact VMware resources like vCenter for discovery and snapshot.

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