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  2. NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting KVM virtual machines
  4. About configuring a backup policy for KVM
  5. Limitations for KVM backups
NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

Limitations for KVM backups

The following limitations exist for backups of KVM hosts.

  • You cannot backup the same KVM virtual machine concurrently.

  • The VMs without virtual disks cannot be protected.

  • The following QCOW2 image attributes are not supported:

    • Compressed cluster

    • Encrypted disks

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