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ahmedvienna

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July 29th, 2010 01:00

ALLVMFS vs *FULL* for VCB

OK, I am a bit confused.

what is the difference between ALLVMFS and FULL

I know with FULL I do a full image of the server.

with ALLVMFS, do I do a backup of the  WHOLE VMFS store that may have many other virtual machines ? or what ?

NETWORKER 7.6

VCB 1.5

Daniea3

123 Posts

July 29th, 2010 05:00

Hi Ahmed,

   

     *FULL*: This specific keyword is used to perform full image level backup of VMs, when it is specified, snapshot of entire VMDK files are taken and mounted on the proxy for backup. Restores of this sorts are used for full VM restore, just as in regular snapshots done using an ESX or Virtual Center servers. The entire system is restored but no individual files can be browsed because this is an image copy…a snapshot.
     ALLVMFS: This is used to perform backup of entire VM data on the OS level, this backup can be browsed and restored as if it was done using traditional backup methods.
Arun

Daniea3

123 Posts

July 29th, 2010 02:00

Hi,

   To backup all virtual machine file systems, we use ALLVMFS and to backup up the entire VM image, use *FULL*.

Regards,

Arun

ahmedvienna

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July 29th, 2010 04:00

but.. dont I back up the entire file system with FULL ?

what am I missing when  with i state ALLVMFS instead of *FULL*... they sound exactly the same to me when I look at the networker documentation.. please clarify more details... thanks

Ahmed

nrgreen

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February 26th, 2015 11:00

If you use ALLVMFS will this do full and inc bakcups of the OS as well ???

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