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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
  4. Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes in the virtual machine
Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes in the virtual machine

To back up a virtual machine that contains Veritas Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes, make sure the following options on the policy's VMware tab are disabled:

Enable file recovery from VM backup

Exclude deleted blocks.

Note:

Restore of selected files from a backup of the full virtual machine is not supported if the virtual machine contains Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes.

See NetBackup for VMware: notes and restrictions.

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Configuring a VMware policy from the Policies utility

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