Trial backup for VMware
Trial backup for VMware lets you perform approximate validations for the backup configuration. Trial backup support for VMware is only available through an API call.
A trial backup operation for a virtual machine performs certain operations as:
Discovery
Validation of credentials
Snapshot
Mapping of a few files (if you have selected the enable file recovery option in the policy).
Test the transfer of limited bytes (to the media server) of data per disk of a virtual machine.
You can use the following API with the input parameter trialBackup: true to initiate a trial backup for a VMware policy. Before you use the trial backup API, the required policy configuration must be defined in the policy created.
: /admin/manual-backup
: POST
Example: Request body
{
"data": {
"type":"backupRequest",
"attributes": {
"policyName": "vmware_test",
"trialBackup" : true
}
}
}The backup job displays as Trial Backup.
Note the following:
The parameter
trialBackupis optional and its default value is false.A trial backup is not recoverable. The job does the cleanup of test data which is transferred during the trial backup operation.
The trial backup functionality is only supported for a VMware policy of VADP (VMware vStorage API for Data Protection) based backups. It does not validate application integration with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL server.
VMware agent resource limits apply to trial backup.
A trial backup consumes resources like querying the vCenter for discovery and there can be short-lived snapshots.
A trial backup doesn't affect existing schedules or incremental backup chains. However, it may affect VMware resources like the vCenter for discovery and snapshot.