VMware Communities: Message List - backup of Vms

Re: backup of Vms

ChuckN — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:50:42 GMT

ESXpress is very easy to use, very inexpensive and works great. I use it at several customer sites for backup and DR. Check out http://www.esxpress.com.

Chuck

Re: backup of Vms

ThomasNederman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:16:06 GMT

If you are talking about the guest OS i would suggest using Symantec backup Exex system recovery. You can then easy restore the data to a new VM with VMware convertor (for version 7 you need the latest version of VMware convertor 3.0.2) . You may want to backup SQL/Exchange data using a different method, but to restore the OS this is a good option

You can also copy each VM folder located on the VMFS share. this however would require you to shut down the VM first.

Thomas Nederman,

http://www.thomasnederman.com

Re: backup of Vms

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:06:54 GMT

Are you looking at going directly to tape? If you have an intermidiatary backup location, there are 3rd party products like http://www.esxpress.com/ and http://www.vizioncore.com/ that produce backup software that will take a snapshot of the VM and then backup the VM to a network location. There are also some free scripts here - http://www.vmware-land.com/Vmware_Links.html#Backups. esXpress does provide a free version that does full backups.

Re: backup of Vms

AWo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:13:08 GMT

The easiest and fastest way is to back up your guests like hardware servers. You can keep your standard backup procedures in place and thereby continiue your backup business without any change. The drawback is, that you may need backup liceneses for every guest (depending on your software and its license model).

AWo

backup of Vms

jeyakarthika — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:39:07 GMT

I have only one Vmware ESX 3.0 Server with mulitple VMs guests running

pls tell me the best pratice to keep backup of the VM guest OS

Note : I dont want to use the NFS share option

Regards
Ratheesh