How to backup VMWare VMs?
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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.
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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
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In case you missed other posts, I am CEO at Restoronix
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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You didn't mention how much data you're backing up, but Unitrends is free for up to 1TB. Full product, including scheduling, only limitation is 1TB of data.
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@bnrstnr said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:
You didn't mention how much data you're backing up, but Unitrends is free for up to 1TB. Full product, including scheduling, only limitation is 1TB of data.
around 900 GB for the 3 critical servers.
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Just want to confirm, so up to now Vsphere has no means of backing up the VM's live? I read that i can actually copy it when its powered off. or i maybe wrong. If not then Veeam, Altaro and Unitrends are my options. I will use the cost effective and easy to deploy solution.
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Correct. vSphere has no capabilities of backing up natively. Have to use some type of 3rd party software to back up the VMs. Unlike what you can do natively in KVM or XenServer.
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@bishnitro said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:
Just want to confirm, so up to now Vsphere has no means of backing up the VM's live? I read that i can actually copy it when its powered off. or i maybe wrong. If not then Veeam, Altaro and Unitrends are my options. I will use the cost effective and easy to deploy solution.
Not exactly. Your problem is a lack of knowledge on how virtualization works. Yes, you can power off a VM and then copy the file(s) that represent the hard disk. But that is not a backup. There is more to a VM than that. You can recover from that, but not simply. That type of functionality exists in all hypervisors simply because they are hypervisors.
@nerdydad said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:
Correct. vSphere has no capabilities of backing up natively. Have to use some type of 3rd party software to back up the VMs. Unlike what you can do natively in KVM or XenServer.
KVM and XenServer do not, natively, have anything to fully manage backups either last time I looked.
