Back up resource groups on demand

10/09/2020 Contributors Download PDF of this page

Backup operations are performed on all the resources defined in a resource group. If a resource group has a policy attached and a schedule configured, then backups occur automatically according to the schedule.

Before you begin

You must have created a resource group with a policy attached.

Do not start an on-demand backup job when a job to back up the SnapCenter VMware plug-in MySQL database is already running.

About this task

In earlier releases of Virtual Storage Console (VSC), you could perform an on-demand backup without having a backup job configured for a VM or datastore. However, for the SnapCenter VMware plug-in, VMs and datastores must be in a resource group before you can perform backups.

Steps

In the left Navigator pane of the VMware vSphere web client, click Resource Groups, then select a resource group, and then click Run Now to start the backup.
If the resource group has multiple policies configured, then in the Backup Now dialog box, select the policy you want to use for this backup operation, and then click Yes.
Click OK to start the backup.
Optional: Monitor the operation progress by clicking Recent Tasks at the bottom of the window or on the dashboard Job Monitor for more detail.

Result

If the quiesce operation fails for any of the VMs in the backup, then the backup is marked as not VM consistent even if the policy selected has VM consistency selected. In this case, it is possible that some of the VMs were successfully quiesced.