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vmware-plugin: updated information for bareos-15.2
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joergsteffens committed Nov 23, 2015
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\subsection{VMware Plugin}
\label{VMwarePlugin}
\index[general]{Plugin!VMware}
\index[general]{VMware!Plugin}

The \vmware\ Plugin can be
used for agentless backups of virtual machines running on
\vSphere.
It makes use of CBT (Changed Block Tracking) to do space efficient
full and incremental backups, see below for mandatory requirements.

\subsubsection{Status}
It is included in Bareos since \sinceVersion{fd}{VMware Plugin}{15.2.0}.

The current development status of the \vmware\
plugin is experimental.
\subsubsection{Status}

The Plugin can do full, differential and incremental backup and restore of VM disks.

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\subsubsection{Installation}

First add an appropriate package repository from
\url{http://download.bareos.org/bareos/experimental/vmware-plugin/}.
Currently, packages exist for CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Debian 8, SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12.
The procedure to add the repository is almost the same as described
in section \nameref{sec:InstallBareosPackages}. Note that the name of the
\path{.repo} for RPM based Linux distributions is \path{bareos:vmware.repo}
for this case.

Install the package \package{bareos-vmware-plugin} including its requirments
by using an appropriate package management tool
(eg. \command{yum}, \command{zypper}, \command{apt})
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\command{bakadm@vsphere.local} with the password \command{Bak.Adm-1234}.

For more details regarding users and permissions in vSphere see
\url{http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-72BFF98C-C530-4C50-BF31-B5779D2A4BBB.html} and
\url{http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-5372F580-5C23-4E9C-8A4E-EF1B4DD9033E.html}
\begin{itemize}
\item \url{http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-72BFF98C-C530-4C50-BF31-B5779D2A4BBB.html} and
\item \url{http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-5372F580-5C23-4E9C-8A4E-EF1B4DD9033E.html}
\end{itemize}

Make sure to add or enable the following settings in \path|/etc/bareos/bareos-fd.conf|:
Make sure to add or enable the following settings in \file{/etc/bareos/bareos-fd.conf}:

\begin{bconfig}{bareos-fd.conf: Plugin Settings}
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For restore, the VM must be powered off and no snapshot must exist.
In \command{bconsole} use the restore menu 5, select the correct FileSet
and enter \bcommand{mark *}{}, then \bcommand{done}{}. After restore has finished,
and enter \bcommand{mark}{*}, then \bcommand{}{done}. After restore has finished,
the VM can be powered on.

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