One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client

nadnerB

I would suggest the following but you’re mostly done:

macrium reflect
shadow protect
acronis true image
They might use VSS, I’m not 100% sure

Left field alternative create a VHDX file using the MS tools.

Hope your current tool does it right the first time

Obsolesce

@nadnerB said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

create a VHDX file using the MS tool

That's right... Their Disk2VHD tools has a checkbox for VSS you can uncheck.

scottalanmiller

So after all of this work.... their backup media corrupted and completed died tonight. Backup lost.

nadnerB

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

So after all of this work.... their backup media corrupted and completed died tonight. Backup lost.

Well that blows chunks.
How did you lot end up sorting it/get around it?

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

How did you lot end up sorting it/get around it?

We didn't. The good backup was lost. We did another with Altaro only to find out that they trick you and don't allow restores unless you have a working Windows server to restore on, they actually detect that you are on Hyper-V and/or Windows client and block you from restoring! Worst backup company EVER.

So right now, status is screwed until we figure something out.

scottalanmiller

Let me tell you .... I've never been so disgusted by any backup vendor, ever.

nadnerB

Well that sucks.

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

Well that sucks.

Yeah, trying a P2V now that we can test in the morning.

scottalanmiller

Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

Unchecking the use VSS checkbox I assume? Did it finish successfully and were you able to mount it afterwards and restore a test file from it?

scottalanmiller

@Obsolesce said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

Unchecking the use VSS checkbox I assume? Did it finish successfully and were you able to mount it afterwards and restore a test file from it?

Yes, we've restored to Hyper-V on a Windows 10 workstation so that we know that the backup is good BEFORE destroying the server!

Emad R

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

ba

Yeah use
ESXi ovftool

better to use it on another VM close to that VM, so you get max network speeds.

Import:
ovftool --disableVerification --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify --datastore=SSD_RAID_10 --noImageFiles -dm=thin /home/medo/ISO/OVA/test.ova vi://root:[email protected]

Export:
ovftool --disableVerification --noSSLVerify -dm=thin vi://root:[email protected]/Vardot_Ubuntu_OVA /home/medo/ISO/OVA/test.ova

To Import with diff name:
ovftool --disableVerification --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify --datastore=SSD_RAID_10 --noImageFiles -dm=thin --name=OVA_TESTER /home/medo/ISO/OVA/Vardot_Ubuntu_OVA.ova vi://root:[email protected]

jmoore

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

Sysinternals is truly great

scottalanmiller

@Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

better to use it on another VM close to that VM

No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

dafyre

I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

Duplicati worked for the traditional backup (until the drive failed.)

Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

Oh so you a fully bootable and stable VM from it without VSS?

scottalanmiller

@Obsolesce said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

Oh so you a fully bootable and stable VM from it without VSS?

I think that it used VSS, but because we could shut down all other VMs, it worked.

Emad R

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

better to use it on another VM close to that VM

No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

Oh you can run it from any where, as long as you can ping the ESXi or reach it. but i prefer a VM cause its faster

scottalanmiller

@Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

@Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

better to use it on another VM close to that VM

No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

Oh you can run it from any where, as long as you can ping the ESXi or reach it. but i prefer a VM cause its faster

I see. That was a problem for us because we couldn't transfer off of the server, their network wasn't fast enough