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VMware backup software for home lab

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We have about 60 VM's that we would like to keep backed up offsite. What (free) software do You recommend that we try/use, and why? We are running ESXi 5.5.

Currently we have tried Bazaar VCB but we could not figure out how to connect that to vCenter, and connecting to each host was a bit of a pain.
 
60 VMs in a home lab that need to be kept off-site ...., color me curious! Sounds a lot more like production than home use, no?
 
Thuleman said:
60 VMs in a home lab that need to be kept off-site ...., color me curious! Sounds a lot more like production than home use, no?
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Well, that's the idea! We run alot of stuff that you would normally see in a production environment. Losing them would just mean that we would have to set them up again, but
we have some dirt-cheap dedicated servers in france that we use as our off-site target :)

ND40oz said:
Veeam Free Edition should be able to handle that.

http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html
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Thanks!
I looked that up last week.I have downloaded it, but have not had the time to get it running yet.
It seems that the free version won't do SCP, correct?
 
Veeam Backup Free replaced the old Veeam FastSCP, you can probably grab the old one if that's all you need.
 
To my understanding Veeam is not working with the free ESXi version, as requested by VMware. Only with payed version.
 
I don't think the OP is using the free 5.5 Hypervisor if he's using vCenter but I am assuming and well we know what that does.
 
The full Veeam product doesn't work with ESXi as the Storage APIs aren't enabled until ESXi is licensed. The Free Veeam is little more than a VMDK copy tool and doesn't use the Storage APIs.
 
Just ssh/slogin into the vm server directly and use rsync to copy all the VM instance data to an external disk.
 
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