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Table of contents

1 User's Guide ..........................................................................................................................3

1.1 About the backup service .......................................................................................................... 3

1.2 Supported web browsers ........................................................................................................... 3

1.3 Installing VMware Tools ............................................................................................................ 3

1.4 Basic operations ......................................................................................................................... 4

1.4.1 Logging in to the service ................................................................................................................................. 4

1.4.2 Backing up virtual machines ........................................................................................................................... 4

1.4.3 Applying a backup plan ................................................................................................................................... 5

1.4.4 Overwriting a virtual machine with its backed-up version .......................................................................... 6

1.4.5 Recovering a virtual machine ......................................................................................................................... 8

1.4.6 Monitoring protection statuses ..................................................................................................................... 9

1.5 Operations with backups .........................................................................................................10

1.6 Operations with backup plans .................................................................................................10

1.6.1 Creating a backup plan ................................................................................................................................. 10

1.6.2 Editing a backup plan .................................................................................................................................... 14

1.6.3 Revoking a backup plan ................................................................................................................................ 14

1.6.4 Deleting a backup plan.................................................................................................................................. 14

1.7 Generating usage reports ........................................................................................................14

2 Terminology reference ......................................................................................................... 16