Suggestions for backup

[Cooldude09]

Hi all,

Could anyone suggest me options for low cost backup hardware and software. Also how about drobo for backup solution.

Anil Gupta

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[bulletprooffool]

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1262 How about this?

[dconvery]

Check out VCB. Its free if you have an enterprise license.

http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1392

Dave Convery

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[Troy_Clavell]

I'll plug stuff as well.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852

[AndreTheGiant]

For ESX 3.x, VCB is a good and cheap solution.

Remember also to use quiescent scripts into VM with database server, and to use system state backup (for example with ntbackup) for each domain controller.

Andre

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[dconvery]

There's nothing wrong with VCB for ESX4.

Dave Convery

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[AndreTheGiant]

There's nothing wrong with VCB for ESX4.

True. but is discussion is related to ESX 3.5

Andre

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[dconvery]

Gotcha. I thought you may have be one of the people who think VCB is dead with vSphere.

Dave Convery

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[AndreTheGiant]

Gotcha. I thought you may have be one of the people who think VCB is dead with vSphere.

IMHO is still a great tool.

If you understand the simple rule, and you are not afraid to do simple scripting, is very powerful.

Andre

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[dconvery]

Agreed. Hopefully the plan to make it just an API will also include some PowerCLI hooks...

Dave Convery

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[Steve_Tron]

Hi,

For small scale ESX 3.5 deployments I use Vizioncores vRanger product to back VM's up to disk, it offers differential backups as well as file level restores, then backup the disk to tape

Regards