vSphere FileSet Plugin Command Options

vSphere FileSet Plugin Command Options
Option	Required	Default	Info	Example
host	No		Guest hostname or a MoRef	host=srv1, host=vm-25
host_include	No		Guest pattern to include	host_include=srv3
host_exclude	No		Guest pattern to exclude	host_exclude=srv[12]
disk_exclude	No		Disk list to exclude (available since version 8.4.8)	disk_exclude=0,2,4
disk_include	No		Disk list to include (available since version 16.0.8). If used, other disks will be exluded	disk_include=0,2,4
keep_cbt	No		Don’t try to activate CBT	keep_cbt
dedup_format	No	No	Control VDDK analyzer for Global Endpoint Deduplication (available since version 12.6).	dedup_format=yes
quiesce_host	Yes	Try	Choose to quiesce guest before the snapshot (Try, yes, no)	quiesce_host=no
server	No	vsphere	Specify a vsphere server	server=vsrv2
debug	No		Enable debug	debug
abort_on_error	No		Abort the job after an error (available since version 8.2.5)	abort_on_error
update_timeout	No	900 seconds	Change initial update timeout
index	No		Generate index for Single Item Restore (available since version 8.6)	index
force_san	No		Force SAN VDDK transfer (available since version 10.2.3)

Note that host_include and host_exclude are Java regexp patterns.

The index feature will generate records in the Catalog to quickly seek to a given block in the backup stream. The granularity of the index can be controlled with the Storage Daemon device directive MaximumFileIndex. The default value is 100MB.

If used together disk_include and disk_exclude affecting the same disk, disk_include takes precedence and the disk will be considered into the backup.

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