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. |