Creating a Protected Set

Prerequisites

The protected environment has been added to the eBackup management system, and scanning for the protected environment is successful.

Context

If the name of a VMware VM backup object contains special characters such as %/\-.", the VM name displayed in the eBackup management system will be inconsistent with the actual one, for example, a name containing % will be displayed as %25. For details, see the vSphere Web Services SDK Programming Guide. It is recommended that the name of a VMware VM not contain special characters.

Procedure

1. On the navigation bar, choose > Protected Set.
2. Click Create.
3. Set basic information of a protected set. Table 1 describes the parameters.
   Figure 1 Create Protected Set
   

   Table 1 Parameter description

   Parameter	Description	Setting Rule
   Name	Name of a user-defined protected set	The name contains 1 to 128 characters and can contain letters, digits, plus signs (+), underscores (_), hyphens (-), periods (.), and at signs (@).
   Description	Description of a protected set	The description contains a maximum of 1,024 characters.
   Protected Environment	Select the protected environment type and then select the protected environment added to the eBackup management system.	Select a VMware protected environment.
   Available Objects	To select backup objects, click and add them to the Selected Objects list. To exclude backup objects, click and add them to the Excluded Objects list.	You can use either of the following methods to select backup objects: In the navigation tree, select the required backup objects; or, set filtering criteria and select the required backup objects that meet the filtering criteria. NOTE: The backup management system does not support the backup of the protected object whose name exceeds 512 characters. You can select multiple backup objects at a time by hold down Ctrl or Shift.
   Selected Objects	Objects to be backed up By default, the system considers all disks on VMs as backup objects. To exclude some disks, click and remove the disks in the VM Disks dialog box. NOTE: The eBackup management system uses IDE (Bus Number: Slot Number) to identify a disk. If you select disks of multiple VMs as backup objects, all disks that can be created on the VMs are selected by default. The system automatically ignores the disks that do not exist.	The total number of selected objects and excluded objects is 200.
   Excluded Objects	Objects not to be backed up	The total number of selected objects and excluded objects is 200.

4. Click OK.