How to backup VMWare VMs?

@brianlittlejohn said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

How many VMs? Altaro Free gives you 2 vms per host free.

3 critical production servers that i need to back up

Altaro Standard Edition can backup 5 VMs per host for $515 or get the Unlimited Edition for $625
https://www.altaro.com/vm-backup/pricing.php

bishnitro

@black3dynamite said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@bishnitro said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@brianlittlejohn said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

How many VMs? Altaro Free gives you 2 vms per host free.

3 critical production servers that i need to back up

Altaro Standard Edition can backup 5 VMs per host for $515 or get the Unlimited Edition for $625
https://www.altaro.com/vm-backup/pricing.php

no downtime? then i can use low cost synology NAS as storage?

bishnitro

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

Veeam Endpoint Backup.

this will require downtime, right?

Dashrender

@bishnitro said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

Veeam Endpoint Backup.

this will require downtime, right?

There's no downtime with Veeam.

Alex Sage

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Dashrender

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

nope, not true.

DustinB3403

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Yup that's the only part that sucks.

JaredBusch

@dustinb3403 said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Yup that's the only part that sucks.

Nope, see above.

Alex Sage

@dashrender yes. It is...

https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_9_5_free_vs_paid_comparison_ds.pdf

Dashrender

There is more than one free backup product from Veeam. The End Point protection now called Veeam Agent for MS Windows does support scheduling and before anyone says you can't use it on a VM, I do use it on a VM. It's not it's declared purpose, but works fine.

https://i.imgur.com/bqnLMfV.png

scottalanmiller

Veeam for sure. Stick with Veeam. Use any backup target temporarily. When you are ready to look at an enterprise backup appliance that is Veeam based (and can transfer your licenses so you don't give up anything in case you pay for Veeam today) you can look at @restoronix

Tagging @RestoronixSean

In case you missed other posts, I am CEO at Restoronix

NerdyDad

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dustinb3403 said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Yup that's the only part that sucks.

Nope, see above.

Can always take the job name and tie it to a scheduled task.

JaredBusch

@nerdydad said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dustinb3403 said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Yup that's the only part that sucks.

Nope, see above.

Can always take the job name and tie it to a scheduled task.

That is the original way. They added scheduling natively like a year ago or so.

iroal

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@nerdydad said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@jaredbusch said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dustinb3403 said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@aaronstuder said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:

@dashrender don't forget no scheduling... you have to run manually...

Yup that's the only part that sucks.

Nope, see above.

Can always take the job name and tie it to a scheduled task.

That is the original way. They added scheduling natively like a year ago or so.

That's true.

I use a powershell to launch a schedule backup of my Vm using Veeam Free.