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Select the desired transport mode for backups of your VM according to your network requirements. The SAN and HOTADD allow for faster LAN-free backups. The other two are over-the-network backup and restore using NBD (network block device) or NBDSSL (secure NBD). | Select the desired transport mode for backups of your VM according to your network requirements. The SAN and HOTADD allow for faster LAN-free backups. The other two are over-the-network backup and restore using NBD (network block device) or NBDSSL (secure NBD). | ||
For example, transport mode NBD requires LAN between data mover and SEP sesam. | For example, transport mode NBD requires LAN between data mover and SEP sesam. HotAdd requires that the data mover is a VM sitting on the VMware environment where you want to make a backup from. SAN requires that the data mover (Windows) is read-only connected to the storage where the VMs are running. | ||
If you do not specify a transport hierarchy, the default transport selection order is ''san:hotadd:nbdssl:nbd''. You can specify your own selection order by manually setting the transport hierarchy in the backup task properties (see [[VMware_Backup#Creating_a_backup_task|Creating a backup task]], step 7). For example, to define the order as HotAdd (preferred transport mode), then SAN, followed by NBD and NBDSSL, enter the following under the ''Save options'' in the backup task '''Options''' properties: <tt>-a trans=hotadd:san:nbd:nbdssl</tt> | If you do not specify a transport hierarchy, the default transport selection order is ''san:hotadd:nbdssl:nbd''. You can specify your own selection order by manually setting the transport hierarchy in the backup task properties (see [[VMware_Backup#Creating_a_backup_task|Creating a backup task]], step 7). For example, to define the order as HotAdd (preferred transport mode), then SAN, followed by NBD and NBDSSL, enter the following under the ''Save options'' in the backup task '''Options''' properties: <tt>-a trans=hotadd:san:nbd:nbdssl</tt> | ||