Enter the name and description of the backup plan.
Select a backup service and a backup repository for the backup plan. Choose whether to enable file-system consistency and compression.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Backup service | Select a backup service. It is recommended to select a backup service located in the same data center as the virtual machines to be backed up. |
| Backup repository | Select a backup repository. Only backup repositories associated with the backup service can be selected. |
| File-system consistency | Enabled by default. For virtual machines with VMTools installed and running, a quiesced or frozen file system is used to ensure that all disk I/O operations are completed and the data is in a restorable and consistent state during snapshot capture, thereby achieving a file-system consistent backup. For other virtual machines, crash-consistent backups are performed, and file system memory data is not included in snapshots. When disabled, all virtual machines will perform crash-consistent backups, and related snapshots will not include memory data of the virtual machine file system. Note: The virtual machine will be temporarily unavailable while creating a file system consistency snapshot. |
| Compression | Choose whether to enable backup data compression, which is enabled by default. The virtual volume data on virtual machines transferred to the backup repository will be compressed before being stored as backup files. |
Select one or more virtual machines to include in the backup plan. You can filter virtual machines by name, cluster name, label name, and label value.
Note:
The following virtual machines are not supported for backup:
- Virtual machines mounted with shared virtual volumes.
- Virtual machines with no virtual volumes mounted.
- Virtual machines running system services, such as ANS (Arcfra Network Service) Controller virtual machines, AOC virtual machines, backup service virtual machines, replication service virtual machines, observability virtual machines, etc.
- Node virtual machines of an AKE (Arcfra Kubernetes Engine) workload cluster.
- Container registry virtual machines.
- Virtual machines in
UpdatingorUnknownstate.- Virtual machines in a cluster disconnected from AOC.
- Virtual machines in a cluster with a trial license that has expired.
- Test virtual machines and replica virtual machines created by the replication service.
