Within our environment, our VM admin is using vRanger to backup the VMs (not his nor my choice--we do have our own VMs that we are able to back up using NetBackup Enterprise Server 7.5.0.5), but they want the vRanger image files backed up. I am able to back up the image files successfully upon incremental backups, but with full backups, they fail with status 13 or status 24 after going over 21 hours. I want to split the backups up, but the vRanger is on a Windows Server 2008R2 machine, which saves the images to the E: drive with part of the VM name in the field. Most of the VMs have a standard prefix for the site, but there are a few that do not have the same:
e.g.
sitehost1
sitehost2
sitehost3
annoyingname
someothername
With only a few of these, I would be able to do a simple globular expression, but there are about 80% with the site name and 20% without and over 100 VMs, which makes doing a globular expression for the backup selection (or exclude list) a chore. Beyond that, if a new VM is spun up, I have no way of guaranteeing that the new VM's image is backed up. I'm doing this per policy, but would it be better to set up User backup and have the vRanger launch a backup once it's completed the image? Or is there a better way to select the VM images to back up?
Thanks for your time, thought, and contribution.
NBU Master: 7.5.0.5 on Solaris 10