Filters

You can add or edit filters for a backup set or a subclient. Filters are criteria to exclude instances, images, or volumes from backups.

Define filters for instances or images under Instance Filters and filters for volumes under Instance Volume Filters.

Show Backupset Filters (subclient only)

Select this option to display filters defined at both the subclient and backup set levels. When this option is cleared, only subclient filters are shown on this tab; but backup set filters are still enforced.

Browse

Click this button to browse and select projects, regions, instances, or images.

When you select an object in this dialog box, all child objects are selected, so that they are filtered automatically when a backup is run for the subclient.

Add

Click this button to open the Add Rule or Add Disk Filters dialog box. Use this dialog box to define filters when you want to filter virtual machines based on specific criteria.

You can define the following types of filters:

• Instance Filters:

  • Instance Name/ Pattern: Select this option to filter virtual machines based on a virtual machine name pattern. For example, to filter all virtual machines that have a name starting with "Test", select this option and enter Test* in the value box.

  • Guest OS: Not supported. Do not use this option.

  • Guest DNS Hostname: Not supported. Do not use this option.

  • Power State: Select one of the following options to identify VMs:

    • Powered On: VMs that are running.

    • Powered Off: VMs that are shut down.

    • Other: VMs with a different power on status, such as Pause or Saved.

• Instance Volume Filters:

  • Volume Type: OS Disk is currently the only value that you can choose.

  • Volume Name/Pattern: Not supported. Do not use this option..

Edit

Select a VM filter entry and click Edit to modify the filter.

Delete

Select a VM filter and click Delete to remove the filter from the subclient.