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Backing up my Datastore

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wildbill001

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Let me state right up front that I'm NOT interested in backing up VMs (at this moment anyway). I build and tear down VMs in my home lab a lot.

What I am interested in backing up, as efficiently as possible, is my Datastore of ISOs that I use to build the VMs with. I have about 400gb worth of O.S. and various products that I use and want to preserve.

Currently, I do a brute-force backup. That is, I log into one of my standalone Win7 systems, bring up WinSCP and then copy the entire directory structure of the ISO Datastore to my backup disk (Think "Full Backup"). But that is a long process, subject to network disruptions, and not real efficient. What I would like to do is take a more incremental approach to backups. I.E., get only what has changed or what I have added to the ISO datastore.

I have and use SyncBackFree for my PCs and Win file systems and would like to use that but it does require Win file-systems. Don't see a way to run Samba on my ESXi5.1 system so that solutions appears to be out (unless I'm missing something).

Any suggestions (free preferably)?

TIA
Bill W
 
In this situation, not knowing your whole setup, one things you could do:

- QNAP NAS with NFS share datastore for your ISO files
- Use built in cloud or RSYNC backup of QNAP NAS to protect the share

This obviously could be accomplished many different ways, but the bottom line is that if your datastore resides on an NFS share you have a lot more options to create incremental backups and sync that data somewhere else.

Hope this steers you in a good direction!
 
I have a 500gb sata drive that I use as a datastore with all my iso. The fastest way to copy is to know what the make model/sn of the drive with all the data is, connect an identical size drive. Boot from CD clonezilla then straight clone the drive with all the iso -> the empty drive. When you need it just pop it back in and since it's an identical clone everything this plug and play.
 
A simple alternative would be cygwin + rsync on the Windows guest. You'll get odd permissions, but otherwise works fine. I still manage Steam backups this way from my gaming machine to the Linux workstation.
 
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