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=== Setting up an Affa job ===
=== Setting up an Affa job ===
The following assumes that you are already familiar with configuring Affa and only focus on the ESXi specific parts.
The following assumes, that you are already familiar with configuring Affa and only focus on the ESXi specific parts.
Assume you want to backup the virtual machine named 'myvm' on ESXi server with IP 10.200.48.5.
Assume you want to backup the virtual machine named 'myvm' on ESXi server with IP 10.200.48.5.
7. run the job manually
7. run the job manually
affa --run esxi-myvm
affa --run esxi-myvm
When the Affa job starts, you can watch the snapshot create task in the Virtual Infrastructure Client.
[[Image:Affa_esxi_viclient_tasks.gif]]
The name of snapshot the snaphot starts with "BEXI-". Do not delete it or revert to it while Affa is running.
