Job Source Options for Agentless VMware Backup
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Catalogic DPX offers a variety of job options for Agentless VMware backup. All of them are available from both interfaces, but the access thereto may differ. See details for each interface below.
In the web interface, backup source job options are defined in the Advanced Options section. To access them, do the following:
Go to Job Manager in the sidebar.
Open an already existing backup job. Or create a new VMware backup job, by clicking the New Backup Job button in the upper right corner and then selecting Backup Type VMware.
Go to the Advanced Options section at the bottom (scroll down if necessary) and expand it. Click any of the following section headers to expand it. Each field and the available choices are explained below.
This option specifies how the job status is reported in cases where unsupported VMs or VMDKs are skipped.
Toggle on
Backup job is reported as failed if a VM or VMDK is skipped because it is not supported.
Toggle off
Backup job succeeds with warning messages if unsupported VMs or VMDKs are encountered.
Use this option to configure the SSL encryption.
Toggle on
DPX reads data from the ESX server using SSL encryption. Data written to secondary storage is not encrypted.
Toggle off
DPX does not read data from the VMware ESXi server using SSL encryption.
Use this option to quiesce VMs during the backup job.
Toggle on
DPX quiesces the file system and applications on the source VM.
Toggle off
DPX backs up the VM while it is running.
Use this option to include VMs that have the Catalogic DPX Client.
Toggle on
DPX performs an agentless backup of VMs that contain a DPX client installation.
Toggle off
DPX skips VMs that have the Catalogic DPX Client.
You can save the Agentless VMware Backup job configurations, reuse and run the saved backup jobs.