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Hi All, thanks @scottalanmiller , thanks all in this community, i followed Scott from Spiceworks, i work as IT admin and waste my time on open source stuff and to build out the best out of it, i'm glad that i found this place and looking forward to contribute and learn

Small games on mobile like Chess, Hatchi and Brain Dots, mostly puzzle and simple games, i quit playing big games as it was a serious addiction and time waste.

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Welcome @vmnomad

Hi All,

I hope all are doing well,
i'm having a difficulty understanding how to do cold storage backup from VMWare environment, currently I'm doing a a local backup to VDP with maximum backup size up to 8TB being saved to QNAP NAS server, the QNAP is hosting the VDP Stores through iSCSI, and it is doing the backup well to the point that i have to make sure there is a replicated version offsite.

to be honest i'm not sure where to start with this, what would be the concept of backing up a live VMWare environment to Cold storage, also as vSphere Data Protection appliance can be hosted only on vmfs volume which is hosted on a NAS or SAN.

kindly advise me how i can cover that gab between the cold storage and the live VDP backup! , and would FreeNAS with ZFS on additional server do a good job in this case? what hardware is required to make a weekly copy of the VDP volume sent offsite,,,

Appreciating your comments.

Kind regards
M.Fota