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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
  5. Hyper-V Policies tab
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Hyper-V Policies tab

The Hyper-V tab appears for policies of the Hyper-V policy type.

The following options appear on the Hyper-V tab.

Table: Options on the Hyper-V tab of the policy

Option

Description

Optimizations

Enable file recovery from VM backup

Allows restore of individual files from the backup. With or without this option, you can restore the entire virtual machine.

Primary VM identifier

Specifies the type of name by which NetBackup recognizes virtual machines when it selects them for backup.

Enable offline backup of non-VSS VMs

Determines whether NetBackup is allowed to perform an offline backup of a virtual machine. This option is intended for guest operating systems that do not support VSS (such as Linux).

Cluster shared volumes timeout

Applies to backups of the virtual machines that are configured in a Microsoft Cluster that uses cluster shared volumes (CSV).

Advanced...

Sets additional parameters for the Hyper-V backup.

For more information about Hyper-V, see the NetBackup for Hyper-V Guide.

Figure: Hyper-V Policies tab

Hyper-V Policies tab

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