About NetBackup for KVM
NetBackup for KVM provides backup and restore of the KVM virtual machines that run on KVM hosts. This workload provides the following capabilities:
Automatically creates consistent (quiesced) backups.
Performs full backups of guest virtual machines on KVM hosts.
Backs up the virtual machines that are either powered on or powered off.
Can recover backups to the original KVM host or a different KVM host.
Can restore virtual machines from the backup.
Performs backups directly from the KVM hosts. No additional management application layer (for example, oVirt) is required.
Supports the disk formats QCOW2.
In this guide, a KVM "domain" is referred to as virtual machine or VM.