Hello,

I recently replied in another thread, maybe you should check other threads before creating a new one

Anyway, for backing up VMs:

For VMs, Veeam or Altaro are great solutions. I think Veeam has no limits when choosing VMs to back up however with Altaro is limited to 2 VMs per host or something like that.

To save your ESXi configuration, you can do it by command line on the ESXi, more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141

What - according to the documentation - should work even with the free ESXi Hypervisor is VM Explorer.

You can download the free trial, which - after the trial period expires - will continue to work with limited features (i.e. as the "Free edition").

Virtual Machine (VM) Server Backup, Recovery & Replication for VMware and Hyper-V | Micro Focus

André

Maybe Nakivo would be an option if Nakivo's known limitations when backing up VMs on ESXi Free Edition are acceptable for you:

Free ESXi Backup Limitations – NAKIVO Knowledge Base

this software works with free esxi versions and even had a free version with some limits.

https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html

Been looking att all above tools and not comfy with any of them. That last you posted, magicker, wont get copied to the machine... wget does not seem to "get" anything... did you get it to work?

AOMEI Cyber Backup works with ESXI free edition https://www.ubackup.com/enterprise/download.html

And the free version of AOMEI Cyber Backup is still geninely useful too.