Configuring VMware application backups that use Replication Director
You can use Replication Director to manage your VMware snapshots and snapshot replication, including the creation of snapshot copies and duplicating an image to disk.
For complete details on how to configure VMware backups and Replication Director with VMware backups, see the NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide and the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.
To configure a VMware policy to back up Exchange Server using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
- Create a new policy or open the policy you want to configure.
- On the Attributes tab, select the following settings:
For the Policy type, select VMware.
In the Policy storage list select the storage lifecycle policy (SLP) that you want to use. This SLP must be configured for snapshot replication.
In the Snapshot Client and Replication Director group, click Use Replication Director.
- On the Clients tab, select the following settings:
Click Select automatically through query.
From the NetBackup host to perform automatic virtual machine selection list, select the host you want to use.
Use the Query Builder to create rules that select the virtual machines you want to back up.
- Click the VMware tab.
Select the Primary VM identifier to use to catalog the backups.
Select Enable file recovery from VM backup.
Select Enable Exchange Recovery.
If you want to truncate logs, do not enable Truncate logs at this time. You must first perform a full backup without log truncation, described later in this procedure.
- Click OK to save the policy.
If you do not want to truncate transaction logs, no further action is necessary.
If you want to truncate transaction logs, continue with step 6.
- Perform a full backup without log truncation.
- When the backup completes, open the policy that you created in step 1.
- On the VMware tab, under Enable Exchange Recovery, select Truncate logs.
- Click OK to save the policy.
- Perform a full VMware backup.