Backing up virtual machines by domain level

Narrow the focus of an operation to a subset of the virtual machines that are running on the system by setting the domain.vmfull option.

Before you begin

The domain.vmfull option backs up the virtual machines that are running on the system that is identified by the vmchost option.

Review the data mover domain.vmfull option. For more information, see Domain.vmfull.

Complete these steps on the data mover system:

Start a data mover command-line session:
- Open a command prompt and change to the data mover installation directory: cd "C:\Program Files\IBM\StorageProtect\baclient".
- t_ve_bup_multiplevmsdm
Open the data mover options file (dsm.opt) with your preferred text editor.
Enter the option name and one or more blank spaces, followed by the option value.
For example:
```
domain.vmfull vmhostcluster=Dev0105
```