# Configure vcsa file based backups with vmware\_vcenter\_settings

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/configure-vcsa-file-based-backups-with-vmware-vcenter-settings/6074>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [May 29, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/configure-vcsa-file-based-backups-with-vmware-vcenter-settings/6074 "2024-05-29T21:02:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![wjscott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@wjscott](https://forum.ansible.com/u/wjscott)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/configure-vcsa-file-based-backups-with-vmware-vcenter-settings/6074/1 "2024-05-29T21:02:36Z")

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I’m using community.vmware.vmware\_deploy\_ovf to deploy vCenter VCSA and vmware\_vcenter\_settings to configure most of the appliance settings with decent success. Even using some modules from vmware.vmware\_rest collection. However, I cannot find any way to configured the vcsa appliance file based backups (such as to an NFS server). This is a fairly standard configuration. I would think this would be part of the vmware\_vcenter\_settings module. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/configure-vcsa-file-based-backups-with-vmware-vcenter-settings/6074/2 "2024-05-30T14:54:02Z")

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I don’t think this is possible at the moment. I’m not sure what’s the best place to implement this. There are three VMware collections at the moment that I know: `community.vmware`, `vmware.vmware_rest` and [the new vmware.vmware collection](http://forum.ansible.com/t/5880).

This collection isn’t part of the Ansible community package (yet) but [vcsa\_settings](https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware.vmware/blob/main/plugins/modules/vcsa_settings.py) looks like a good module to do this.