Manually back up virtual machines

You can start a backup manually from a policy.

To manually back up virtual machines

Open the NetBackup web UI.
On the left, click Protection > Policies.
Select the policy and then select Manual backup.
Select the type of schedule for the backup.
Select the clients (virtual machines) to back up.
If the policy was configured for automatic selection of virtual machines, the Clients list shows the VMware backup host rather than the virtual machines.
Click Backup to start the backup.
To see the job progress, click Activity monitor.
Note that your VMware backup request launches more than one job. The first job automatically creates and deletes snapshots. This job has a dash (-) in the Schedule column. The second job backs up the virtual machine files from the snapshot.