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I have a question regarding backups and VM's that contain snapshots. If i have a VM running in vmware with 2 snapshots and a snapshot based backup runs overnight, will it delete all of my snapshots or will it only delete the one it creates during the process?

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NetBackup uses the VMware Storage API’s and shouldn’t cause issues but;

VMsnapshots Snapshots are bad! this is a good explanation why

Snapshots can cause issues and depending on the delta size of the file it may not get played into the backup routine. I have seen issues in the past where chains of snapshots have been missed. I would recommend that you either use agent based processing for these VM’s if you cannot clean the snapshots or export the VM as a template (a better solution if you keeping snapshots for “backup").

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