Data Recovery Feature - Only one backup per day?

[ScotttW]

Just watched the demo for the new Data Recovery feature. It didn't look like it allowed you to define how many backups/snapshots you could take each day...for example, hourly; or say every three hours during normal business hours.

Does the Data Recovery feature only allow one backup per day?

[jguidroz]

It looks like with the initial release of Data Recovery, it's one backup per day. From the discussions I've had, Data Recovery is geared for small businesses (I believe there is a host limit). BUT, third parties will be able to take advantage of the VCB API's to back up only changed blocks, and presumably allow you to schedule multiple backups in a day.

Seeing as we do image backups once a week, taking backups once a day will be a huge improvement.

[admin]

As you say, it does indeed look like it's the case. I guess it's probably just a limitation of the scheduling part of the interface rather than a technical limitation - but until we get our hands on a GA version can't say for sure.

Alex

www.phdvirtual.com

[Smoggy]

Hi,

With VMware Data Recovery by default each backup job runs

once a day as the solution is meant as a disk to disk backup and recovery product for VMs where RPO is 24 hours. That said if you want to backup a VM more than once a day then you could simply add that VM to multiple backup jobs inside the scheduler.

I guess the important thing to remember is that this is not a CDP style backup / recovery solution.

hope that helps.

Best Regards,

Lee Dilworth