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We have a VMware backup tag which contains 16 servers, is there a way to configure the order in which they are backed up?

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Moose wrote:

Chris,

We utilize VMware backup tags throughout our enterprise, it is much easier to manage.  I figured we would need to isolate the VMs in question and create a separate backup job for them.

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You could still use tags and have a job for each VM. Then schedule them to run after each other in order.   That would be a way around it.

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I am pretty sure when you select a tag it just backs them up in random order and there is no way to specify an order.  I think if you needed that you would want to select the VMs and then order them.


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Chris,

We utilize VMware backup tags throughout our enterprise, it is much easier to manage.  I figured we would need to isolate the VMs in question and create a separate backup job for them.

Thanks


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Moose wrote:

Chris,

We utilize VMware backup tags throughout our enterprise, it is much easier to manage.  I figured we would need to isolate the VMs in question and create a separate backup job for them.

Thanks

You could still use tags and have a job for each VM. Then schedule them to run after each other in order.   That would be a way around it.


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