Overview

The default VMware backup and restore transport mode is HOTADD. This article describes how to change the transport mode when there are environmental changes

Procedure

Change transport mode to NBD from HOTADD
1. Log in to the VMWARE Backup proxy with default username root and password.
2. Ensure there are no jobs running.
3. Stop the Phoenix Agent service on the backup proxy using the command:
```
/etc/init.d/Phoenix stop
```
4. Verify if any Phoenix processes are still running.
```
ps -ef | grep -i Phoenix
```
5. If any process is still found running, kill the process with the following command:
```
Kill -9 <process id>
```
6. Goto to the below path
```
cd /etc/Phoenix/VMWARE 
```
7. Edit Phoenix.cfg file using vi editor using below command:
```
vi Phoenix.cfg 
        Type ‘ i ‘ to activate insert mode 
        Add the following lines to the configuration file:
        #For Backup
        _VM_BACKUP_TRANSPORT_MODE = 'nbdssl:nbd'
        #For Restore
        _VM_RESTORE_TRANSPORT_MODE = 'nbdssl:nbd'
        Type esc key followed by :wq to save and exit file.
```
8. Verify if above lines has added using below command
```
cat Phoenix.cfg
```
9. Start the Phoenix Agent service on the backup proxy as follows:
```
/etc/init.d/Phoenix start
```
10. Trigger the backup or restore
Change transport mode to HOTADD from NBD
1. Log in to the VMWARE Backup proxy with default username root and password.
2. Ensure there are no jobs running.
3. Stop the Phoenix Agent service on the backup proxy using the command:
```
/etc/init.d/Phoenix stop
```
4. Verify if any Phoenix processes are still running.
```
ps -ef | grep -i Phoenix
```
5. If any process is still found running, kill the process with the following command:
```
Kill -9 <process id>
```
6. Goto to the below path
```
cd /etc/Phoenix/VMWARE 
```
7. Edit Phoenix.cfg file using vi editor using below command:
```
vi Phoenix.cfg 
        Type ‘ i ‘ to activate insert mode 
        Remove the below lines from configuration file:
        #For Backup
        _VM_BACKUP_TRANSPORT_MODE = 'nbdssl:nbd'
        #For Restore
        _VM_RESTORE_TRANSPORT_MODE = 'nbdssl:nbd'
        Type esc key followed by :wq to save and exit file.
```
8. Verify if above lines has added using below command
```
cat Phoenix.cfg
```
9. Start the Phoenix Agent service on the backup proxy as follows:
```
/etc/init.d/Phoenix start
```
10. Trigger the backup or restore

Overview

Procedure

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