Add or Remove Specific VM Data from the Arcserve Backup Database

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Add or Remove Specific VM Data from the Arcserve Backup Database

Arcserve Backup provides you with command line arguments that let you add and remove specific VM data from the Arcserve Backup database. The arguments can be used when you know the name of the specific VM that you want to add to or remove from the Arcserve Backup database. The command line arguments are as follows:

-insertVM <vmname>
-deleteVM <vmname>

Note: You can use -insertVM and -deleteVM with the VMware command line utility (ca_vcbpopulateDB) and the Hyper-V command line utility (ca_msvmpopulateDB). For more information about these utilities, see the Command Line Reference Guide.

To add or remove VM data from the Arcserve Backup database

Open the Windows command prompt.
Change the directory to directory where the Client Agent for Windows is installed.
Execute ca_vcbpopulateDB (VMware VMs) or ca_msvmpopulateDB (Hyper-V VMs) using the syntax that follows:
-insertVM <vmname>
The example that follows describes the syntax required to insert a VMware VM with hostname VM-001 into the Arcserve Backup database:
```
ca_vcbpopulatedb.exe -Primary Arcserve1 -carootUser caroot -carootPass ca -esxServer ESXServer1 -esxUser root -esxUserPass rootpass -insertVM VM-001 -debug
```
The example that follows describes the syntax required to insert a Hyper-V VM with hostname VM-001 into the Arcserve Backup database:
```
ca_msvmpopulatedb.exe -Primary Arcserve1 -insertVM VM-001 -debug 1
```
-deleteVM <vmname>
The example that follows describes the syntax required to delete a VMware VM with hostname VM-001 from the Arcserve Backup database:
```
ca_vcbpopulatedb.exe -Primary Arcserve1 -carootUser caroot -carootPass ca -esxServer ESXServer1 -esxUser root -esxUserPass rootpass -deleteVM VM-001 -debug
```
The example that follows describes the syntax required to delete a Hyper-V VM with hostname VM-001 from the Arcserve Backup database:
```
ca_msvmpopulatedb.exe -Primary Arcserve1 -deleteVM VM-001 -debug 1
```