After enabling support for RDMs or independent disks, you can perform an IntelliSnap backup or backup copy operation.
Backups
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The hardware snapshot for the backup includes RDM LUNs and datastore LUNs.
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Backups for physical RDMs and independent virtual RDMs are crash-consistent. However, if application-aware backups are enabled, then the backups are application-consistent. For more information, see Application Aware Backups for the Virtual Server Agent.
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VMware snapshots are taken for independent disks.
Transformations for Backup Copies and Restores
When an RDM or independent disk is mounted to a VM for a backup copy operation or a restore operation, the following transformations are performed:
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Physical RDMs are converted to virtual RDMs.
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Independent disks are converted to dependent disks.
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RDMs are restored as VMDKs.
Procedures
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To perform an IntelliSnap backup operation for a full backup, see Basic Backup - IntelliSnap for VMware.
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To copy snapshots of the data to any media or to create additional standby copies of data during the IntelliSnap backup operation, see Backup Copy - IntelliSnap for VMware.
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For additional options, see: