Exclude Specific File
Systems from Quiesced Snapshots
On the Linux guest operating systems, the configuration setting
excludedFileSystems
allows file systems to be excluded
from a quiesced snapshot operation. This setting, if specified, is listed in
the section of
vmbackup
of the
tools.conf
file.
The value of
excludedFileSystems
is a comma-separated list of
glob-style patterns specifying the file systems to be excluded from quiesced
snapshots. The patterns may use '*' (wildcard) to represent any string of
characters and '?" (joker) to represent any single character. Note that the
characters represented by these patters, '*' and '?" may include any
characters, including '/'
- Open thetools.conffile from/etc/vmware-tools/tools.confin your Linux guest operating system.
- Add avmbackupsection in the file, if it does not exist.[vmbackup]
- In thevmbackupsection, setexcludedFileSystemsto the preferred list of patterns.excludedFileSystems = <list of patterns>
For example, this
setting excludes the file system mounted at
/fs1
from a quiesced snapshot operation.
As another example, this setting excludes all the file systems whose mount points start with[vmbackup] excludedFileSystems = /fs1
/fs
or
/dev
from a quiesced snapshot operation.
[vmbackup] excludedFileSystems = /fs*,/dev/*