Auto backup ESXi?

[Reado]

Is it possible to automatically backup ESXi on a daily/weekly basis to say a 320GB external USB hard drive?

In addition how easy is it to restore a ESXi installation from backup?

Thanks in advance.

[PaulSvirin]

I think this information will be a great help for you:

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iSCSI SAN software

http://www.starwindsoftware.com

[AndreTheGiant]

You can also schedule from a remote machine.

See for example this remote command:

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/esx_3i_rcli/vicfg-cfgbackup.php

Andre

[depping]

why would you want to backup ESXi itself?

Duncan

VMware Communities User Moderator | VCP | VCDX

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[lamw]

Here's a script that does exactly that if you wanted to backup your ESXi configurations -

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