Backup Parameters

Important

Remember to read the Best Practices chapter common for all of our hypervisor plugins.

include=<Java Regexp> Specifies a list of guest VM names to backup.

exclude=<Java Regexp> Specifies a list of guest VM names to not backup.

vm=<guest VM name> Specifies the name of a single guest VM to backup.

application_consistent=<true|try|false> Specifies if the snapshot taken during backup should be application consistent true, crash consistent false or try application consistent first and fallback onto crash consistent if it fails try. This parameter is optional and its default value is try.

dat_file=<String> Specifies the name of the .dat file used to keep track of dependencies between snapshot. This argument is optional and if not spcified its default value is nutanixAhv.dat

The use of regular expressions in the parameters include= and exclude= must be a Java compatible regular expression.

In order to be backed up the guest VM must match the include=... predicate and not match the exclude=.... A guest VM that matches the vm=... will be backed up regardless of the include/exclude specifications.

By default all guest VMs match the include predicate and not the exclude. Therefore, if none of the parameters vm=..., include=... and exclude=... are provided, all available guest VMs hosted on the Nutanix-AHV hypervisor will be backed up.

On the other hand if the parameter vm=... is specified all guest VM will no longer match the include predicate. This means that if only vm=... parameter is specified no other guest VM will be backed up.

See FileSet Examples for examples of include/exclude/vm setups.