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  • Name: athlon crazy 
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  • Member Since: Oct 28, 2007
  • Last Logged In: Nov 21, 2009 11:52 PM
  • Status Level: Expert Expert (1,547 points)
  • Location: Malaysia
  • Occupation: System Engineer
  • Homepage: http://www.no-x.org
  • Signature: vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite http://www.no-x.org

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Okay dude, for those who already familiar with vcbMC-1.0.6 beta, here another new release (vcbMC-1.0.7-Lite) from me. Frankly, I lost my vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta source code and I need to start everything from the scratch for vcbMC Lite. Perhaps vSphere didn’t need VCB anymore, but I believe most of you out there still relying on vcb to backup your virtual machines. BTW, this tool only do manual backup for your ESX 3.5 virtual machines. It’s really easy to use though no manual, but you can always press “help” button for guidence.

  • Tool : vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite
  • Description : vcb GUI for ESX virtual machine manual backup operation
  • Tested : Win2k3 32 Bit / WinXP (old .ocx MSCOMCTL.OCX may need to be replaced during installation)
  • Download : here

p/s: Still working on another version which can do schedule backup job like vcbMC-1.0.6

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I've learn from my bad experienced and now just realized why I need to backup my virtual machines when one of my Datastore on SATA disk was corrupted and end up, I need to do 10x virtual machines reinstallation. Imagine when you lost few website, database, email & etc. How bout all the hard work plus 7 days downtime, it's really a disaster to me. Doesn't matter which backup method I choosed, as long I have it, I could do virtual machine restoration and bring up everything within one hour.

So the question is, which backup method is suit with my current home setup? I have no SAN, fiber channel, no tape drive and every connection rely on my LAN with 100Mb speed. But, once I try vmware consolidated backup within my current environment and found out vcb works flawlessly with acceptable speed, I decided to use and make it more user friendly with less error prone by develop GUI tools (vcbMC)which can backup all my virtual machines to my temporary stagingDisk.

vcbMC is just a frontend for vmware consolidated backup tool and windows AT command. Meaning, I can backup all virtual machines with vcbMC manually, browse vm's by name, register new vm's and finally do weekly backup automatically. I don't need to remember all the vcb commands such as vcbVmName.exe, vcbMounter.exe and all necessary parameters during the backup since vcbMC will do it for me.

VCB Management Console (vcbMC-1.0.6) Beta1

REQUIREMENT
vcb-1.0.5
vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta (Download)
Windows Server 2003
CMD.exe
Windows Task Scheduler

Complete How-To vcbMC (Here)

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