Deleting a vSphere Client snapshot
This topic applies to the use of BLIB () with NetBackup for VMware.
To use BLIB with NetBackup for VMware, you must delete an existing vSphere Client snapshot if both of the following are true:
You used the vSphere Client interface to manually create a snapshot of the virtual machine and that snapshot is currently active.
A NetBackup policy with the feature had never been used to back up the virtual machine before you started the vSphere Client snapshot.
In this case, NetBackup cannot enable BLIB for the virtual machine. You must delete the vSphere Client snapshot. Then, when the NetBackup policy runs, BLIB is enabled.
More information is available on NetBackup block-level backups:
See About reducing the size of VMware backups.
See Block-level backup (BLIB): full vs incremental.
To delete a vSphere Client snapshot
- In the vSphere Client interface, right-click on the virtual machine and select Snapshot > Snapshot Manager.
- Select the snapshot and click Delete.
- To back up the virtual machine with BLIB, you can now run a NetBackup policy that uses Enable block-level incremental backup.
NetBackup backups from this policy continue to use storage optimization, even if you manually create a snapshot of the virtual machine using vSphere Client.
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