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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Management Tools > EMC: VMware Forum

Free ESXi 5 Backup Solution

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Frink (Programmer)
19 Jul 12 6:45
I have several physical servers running ESXi 5 and would like to back up the VMs that they host.

Does anyone know a simple free backup solution to perform the following:

  • Scheduled backups of running VMs to a Windows file system folder on a physical file server, and recovery
  • Recovery of backups
  • Reliable, with reasonable speed
Individual file recovery would also be nice, but not essential

If there are no products available, is there a scripting solution?
itsp1965 (IS/IT--Management)
19 Jul 12 9:30
Take a look at Veeam
http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-soluti...
ArizonaGeek (IS/IT--Management)
19 Jul 12 18:36
That version of Veeam is free, I am not sure it will back up the free version of VMWare. The only thing I know that will back it up is to write a script for it. Try it and see, I would be curious to know if it will back up the free version.

Cheers
Rob

The answer is always "PEBKAC!"

NortonES2 (TechnicalUser)
20 Jul 12 6:35
Or try the VMWare Data Recovery appliance

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

Frink (Programmer)
23 Jul 12 9:14
Cheers,
Veeam does work but it uses unsupported API's so is not guaranteed in the future.
VMware Data Recovery needs vCentre, which I don't have.

Scripting may well be the only answer. Has anyone tried this?
biglebowski (TechnicalUser)
26 Jul 12 1:42
What os are the VM's running?

Biglebowskis Razor - with all things being equal if you still can't find the answer have a shave and go down the pub.

Frink (Programmer)
26 Jul 12 6:11
They are all W2K3 and XP at the moment. Will be W2K8 and Linux in future
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