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.
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 '/'
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Example
[vmbackup] excludedFileSystems = /fs1As another example, this setting excludes all the file systems whose mount points start with /fs or /dev from a quiesced snapshot operation.
[vmbackup] excludedFileSystems = /fs*,/dev/*