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Hello and welcome to the Forums,
THere are several tools out there to aid in backups. THe key is to determine what you really want to backup. WIth virtualization making a full and then incremental backups of a VM is quite easy. Many of the tools are designed to limit bandwidth by using change block tracking (for incrementals, backing up only those things that changed), source side de-duplication, active block tracking (looking at the filesystem to see whcih blocks should be zeroed), etc.
For just starting out many of the tools work just fine. VMware VDR, Veeam Backup, PhD Virtual, and Quest vRanger. If you already have an investment in Symantec they also integrate into the virtual environment.
One other thing, always look for a tool that integrates into the virtual environment.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
Communities Moderator, VMware vExpert,
Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise 2nd Edition
Podcast: The Virtualization Security Podcast Resources: The Virtualization Bookshelf
Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
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