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marius1
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Backup solution for (free) ESXi

Is there any backup solution (freeware, if possible) for VMware ESXi free version?

Regards

marius

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acrosync
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Contributor

Vertical Backup is a new tool that can back up free ESXi to local or NFS drives, SFTP servers, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Backblaze B2.  It supports many features: fully incremental backup, cross-host deduplication, client-side encryption, etc.

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Nanuek
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I have been using XSIBackup on my homelab as it's free. Wasn't much effort to setup and is currently doing a weekly hot backup of a handful of mixed OS VMs without having to install agents on the guests. It produces .vmdk files for the backup (free version anyway) so should be easy to restore (although I never have which is probably really bad).

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B__st
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I'm building more than you ask, but now project respect where you are looking

GitHub - DiecoTheBxxst/CentralConsole: Backup, manage and monitor your infrastracture

If some one can help me, it could be great!