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  2. NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting KVM virtual machines
  4. Configure a query to select KVM virtual machines for backup
  5. Example queries to select VMs for backup
NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

Example queries to select VMs for backup

This topic provides examples of the kinds of queries that you can create to automatically select KVM virtual machines for backup.

In the following example, the query selects KVM virtual machines with a host name that ends with the string domain.com. The query string with OData keywords and operators is: endswith(kvmHostName), 'domain.com')

Field

Operator

Value

kvmHostName

Ends with

domain.com

In the following example, the query selects a KVM virtual machine with the UUID 100faa79-1119-4c49-8f32-b4a165ee51d. The query string with OData keywords and operators is: uuid eq '100faa79-1119-4c49-8f32-b4a165ee51d6'

Field

Operator

Value

uuid

Equal

100faa79-1119-4c49-8f32-b4a165ee51d6

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