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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide
  3. Excluding virtual disks from the backup
  4. About excluding virtual disks from the backup
Veritas NetBackup™ Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide

About excluding virtual disks from the backup

NetBackup provides several methods to exclude virtual machine disks from backups. One method lets you exclude the virtual disks that are defined in a virtual machine's Custom Attribute. NetBackup then excludes those disks if you specify the Custom Attribute name in the backup policy.

Veritas provides a Virtual Disk Exclusion Wizard in the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client. You can use the wizard to configure and apply a Custom Attribute to a virtual machine or multiple virtual machines.

To use the plug-in to configure a Custom Attribute to exclude disks from backups, the vCenter Global credentials Manage custom attributes and Set custom attribute are required.

See Setting the exclude disks Custom Attribute.

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