Scheduling virtual machine backups

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To ensure that your data is protected, schedule virtual machine backups.

Before you begin

Before you back up virtual machines that are hosting Microsoft Exchange Server databases, mount the databases.

By default, the maximum size allowed for a VMDK in a backup operation is 2 TB. However, the maximum is 8 TB. To increase the maximum size, use the vmmaxvirtualdisks option. For more information, see Vmmaxvirtualdisks.

About this task

During backup processing, Data Protection for VMware bypasses a guest Microsoft Exchange Server database that is dismounted, corrupted, suspended, or not in a healthy state in a Database Availability Group (DAG). Databases in such invalid states are excluded from virtual machine backups and are not available to restore.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Protection for VMware user interface.
  2. Click the Backup tab.
  3. Click Create Schedule to specify a backup schedule name, source (the virtual machines to include in the backup schedule), and other scheduling options.
  4. Verify that the source of the schedule includes the virtual machines that are hosting Microsoft Exchange Server.
  5. Verify that one of the following services is running:
    • If you are using scheduler that is managed by a Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD), ensure that the CAD service is running on the data mover.
    • If you are using the stand-alone scheduler, ensure that the scheduler service is running.