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  2. NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting KVM virtual machines
  4. Configure a query to select KVM virtual machines for backup
  5. Test a VM query
NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

Test a VM query

You can test a query that you create to preview the VMs for KVM that NetBackup discovers in the current NetBackup environment.

To test a VM query

  1. Open the KVM policy.
  2. Select the Backup selections tab.
  3. Locate and select Test query.

    The following information is displayed:

    Query

    The query criteria.

    All

    Displays the number of VMs in the NetBackup environment.

    Included

    Displays the number of VMs that match the query criteria.

    Excluded

    Displays the number of VMs that do not match the query criteria.

    Failed

    The virtual machine cannot be selected for backup because of a host name problem or other error. Also, the query cannot exclude the virtual machine.

    An explanation is included with the VM.

    List of VMs

    The names of the VMs in the NetBackup environment, based on the tab that you selected.

  4. To perform an immediate discovery to update the asset information, scroll to the bottom of the Test query modal and select Discover now.

    Note: NetBackup does not run discovery when the KVM policy runs. To reflect any new VMs in the policy, you must manually run discovery to discover those VMs.

  5. Select Close when you are finished.

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