[BBLISA] VMware backups

[Kress F]

Just another vote against vRanger - like 3 or 4 years ago I spent so many
hours on the phone with their tech support guys that I got to know most of
them by voice, and they could never really offer any solutions to the
myriad problems their software created.  They may have improved it since
then, but it would have to turn water into wine for me to consider using
their stuff again.

cheers,
kress

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:

>
> Rob> Hi All. I'm starting to look at some software for backing up
> Rob> Vmware VM's.  Currently we have backup agents installed in each
> Rob> VM. but we are looking into whether software from VEEAM, or Quest
> Rob> software's vranger is worthwhile.  Does anyone out there in
> Rob> BBLISA land have any experience with either of these products?
> Rob> (Or others for vm backup, as we have just started looking)
>
> We use CommVault 9 to backup and bunch of VMs.  I don't like it much
> at all.  I end up having horrible times doing restores where CommVault
> says I'll need tape A, then doesn't tell me it will also need tape B
> ( or more....) until later.  It's *very* frustrating.  It's also
> strictly a GUI only tool, even though they have a semblance of a CLI
> buried underneath.
>
> Are you looking to do a snapshot of the VM, then mount the snapshot
> and back it up while also indexing the content?  Or do you just wnat
> to snapshot the VM and do an image backup?
>
> Or better yet, turn the question on it's head, what are you trying to
> *restore* from your backups?  Entire VMs as quickly as possible?
> Single files from inside the VM?  Once you know that, you can answer
> the backup question.
>
> John
>
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