Exclude Specific File
Systems from Quiesced Snapshots
You can exclude specific file systems from a quiesced snapshot operation.
In Linux guest operating systems, the
configuration setting
excludedFileSystems
allows file systems to be
excluded from a quiesced snapshot. 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/*