Create a Backup Job

Before you can back up a resource, you must create a job definition.

About this task

For example purposes, this task describes how to create a backup job for resources that are in a VMware vCenter. To create backup jobs for other resources, see the instructions by resource type in Operations Overview.

Procedure

To create a VMware backup job, complete the following steps:

  1. From the navigation menu, expand Manage Protection, then expand Hypervisors. Expand VMware, then click Backup.
  2. Select the resources that you want to back up
  3. Use the search function to search for available resources and toggle the displayed resources through the View filter. Available options are VMs and Templates, VMs, Datastore, and Tags & Categories. Tags, which are applied in vSphere, make it possible assign metadata to virtual machines.
  4. Click Select SLA Policy to add one or more SLA policies that meet your backup data criteria to the job definition.
  5. To create the job definition by using default options, click Save.
  6. Optional: To configure additional options, click Select Options and follow the instructions in Create a VMware Backup Job Definition.
  7. Click Save.
  8. After the job definition is saved, available virtual machine disks (VMDKs) in a virtual machine are discovered and are shown when VMs and Templates is selected in the View filter. By default, these VMDKs are assigned to the same SLA policy as the virtual machine. Optionally, to define a more granular policy by excluding individual VMDKs, follow the instructions in Create a VMware Backup Job Definition.

Results

The job runs as defined by the SLA policies that you selected, or you can manually run the job by clicking Jobs and Operations > Monitoring and starting the job from the Job Monitor pane. For instructions, see Start a Job.

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