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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
  4. Job types for Instant Recovery for VMware
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Job types for Instant Recovery for VMware

Instant Recovery jobs appear as the following job types in the NetBackup Activity Monitor.

Table: VMware Instant Recovery job types in the Activity Monitor

Job type

Description

VM Instant Recovery

This job is the parent job for restoring a VM by means of Instant Recovery.

To complete this job, you must enter one of the following:

nbrestorevm -ir_done instant recovery ID

nbrestorevm -ir_deactivate instant recovery ID

For details on these commands:

See Restoring a virtual machine with Instant Recovery for VMware.

Activate Instant Recovery

The parent VM Instant Recovery job starts an Activate Instant Recovery job to create the VM on the ESX host.

Stop Instant Recovery

This job runs when you use nbrestorevm -ir_done to remove the NetBackup NFS datastore and release its resources on the media server.

Deactivate Instant Recovery

This job runs when you use nbrestorevm -ir_deactivate to delete the restored VM from the ESX host.

Reactivate Instant Recovery

This job runs when you use nbrestorevm with the ir_reconfigure option to restart an interrupted virtual machine recovery.

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