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NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

NetBackup configuration overview

After the installation of NetBackup, continue with the following configuration tasks.

Table: NetBackup configuration tasks

Sequence

Tasks

Phase 1

Add the KVM hosts. You must complete the discovery of KVM assets before you configure any RBAC roles for this workload.

See Add KVM hosts.

Phase 2

Configure the NetBackup RBAC roles for KVM administrators. Contact your NetBackup administrator for assistance.

See RBAC roles for the KVM administrator.

Phase 3

Create a NetBackup policy for KVM.

See Add a policy for KVM.

Phase 4

Perform a backup.

See Perform a manual backup.

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