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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring backup policies for VMware
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Configuring backup policies for VMware

This section includes the following topics:
  • Configure a VMware policy

  • Limit jobs per policy on the Attributes tab (for VMware)

  • Backup options on the VMware tab

  • Exclude disks tab

  • Browse for VMware virtual machines

  • Limit the VMware servers that NetBackup searches when browsing for virtual machines

  • Virtual machine host names and display names should be unique if VMs are selected manually in the policy

  • Primary VM identifier option and manual selection of virtual machines

  • About incremental backups of virtual machines

  • Configure incremental backups

  • Arctera InfoScale volumes in the virtual machine

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