Domain.vmfull
The domain.vmfull option specifies the virtual machines (VMs) to include in your full virtual machine image backup operations.
This option applies to both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine disks.
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Domain.vmfull for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
For Hyper-V VM backups, use the domain.vmfull option to specify which Hyper-V VMs are processed when you run a backup vm command, without specifying any Hyper-V VM names.
You can specify which VMs to process by using any of the following techniques:
- Use the VM= option and specify the name of a virtual machine.
- Provide a comma-separated list of virtual machine names.
- Use wildcard syntax to process virtual machines that match the name pattern.
- Use the vmname:vhdx= option to specify the VM hard disk (VHDX) to include or exclude during the Hyper-V backup operation of a VM.
- Use the all-vm domain-level parameter. You can also include one or more virtual
machines by using the
VM=
keyword, or exclude VMs by using the-VM=
syntax.
The virtual machines that are specified on the domain.vmfull option are processed only when the backup vm command is entered without specifying a virtual machine or a list of virtual machines on the command line.
Attention: For Microsoft
Hyper-V operations, the only valid domain-level parameter for the domain.vmfull
option is all-vm. You can also include one or more virtual machines by using
the
VM=
keyword, or exclude virtual machines by using the -VM=
syntax.
Supported Clients
This option can be used with supported Windows clients. This option can also be defined on the server.
Options file
Set this option in the client options, by using the command line, or by using the VM
Backup tab of the Preferences editor.
Restriction: The
vmname:vhdx=vhdx_location parameter cannot be
set in the Preferences Editor. Include this setting in the options file, or on the command line when
you run a backup vm command:
Syntax for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
Syntax rules: Multiple keywords must be separated by a semicolon.
There cannot be any spaces after the semicolons. Multiple machine or domain names must be separated
by commas, with no space characters. For examples, see
vm=vmname
.Parameters
- vmname
- Defines the virtual machine name that you want to process. You can supply a list of virtual
machine host names by separating the names with commas (
vm1,VM2,Vm5
). The names are case-sensitive and must match the capitalization that is shown on the Hyper-V host in the view. - vm=vmname
- The vm= keyword specifies that the next set of values is a list of virtual
machine names. The vm= keyword is the default and is not required. In this example, vm= is not specified and commas are used to separate the machine names.
domain.vmfull my_vm1,my_vm2
- vmname:vhdx=vhdx_location
- This option specifies the location of the virtual machine hard disk (VHDX) to include in Hyper-V virtual machine backup operations.
- all-vm
- This option specifies that a backup vm operation processes all Hyper-V virtual machines that are known to the Hyper-V host.
Examples for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
- Options file:
- Include all virtual machines in full VM backup
operations.
domain.vmfull all-vm