Virtual machine include options
Virtual machine include and exclude options influence the behavior of backup and restore operations for virtual machines. These options are processed before any command-line options are processed, so that options on the command line can override options specified on any of the virtual machine include options or virtual machine exclude options. See the individual option descriptions for information about the options.
This feature
is available only if the client operates as a data mover for IBM Spectrum Protect™ for Virtual Environments.
- Include.vm
For virtual machine operations, this option overrides the management class that is specified on the vmmc option. - Include.vmdisk
The INCLUDE.VMDISK option includes a virtual machine (VM) disk in backup operations. If you do not specify one or more disk labels, all disks in the VM are backed up. - INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS
Use the INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS option to determine the total number of snapshot attempts to try for a virtual machine (VM) backup operation that fails due to snapshot failure. - INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS
The INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option notifies virtual machine applications that a backup is about to occur. This option allows the application to truncate transaction logs and commit transactions so that the application can resume from a consistent state when the backup completes. An optional parameter can be specified to suppress truncation of the transaction logs. To use this option, you must have a license agreement to use IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware.