<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">I second GhettoVCB. Been using it for many years without issue. <br><br>Takes a snapshot, does the backup, removes snapshot when done. Simple but effective. It does choke (very randomly and rarely for me) but when it does it's been smart enough to remove the snapshot so I don't have a system working for too long on the snapped image, not smart enough to try the other VMs when one does fail to backup, the entire process just stops.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Munir Nassar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nassarmu@gmail.com" target="_blank">nassarmu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i've been using GhettoVCB to backup VMDKs, it works... usually. It has<br>
some serious drawbacks: the package isn't signed so you cannot easily<br>
install it or keep ESX updated with it installed. Installing it by<br>
hand is easy enough, but you have to enable SSH or the console to do<br>
so and finally there is no management console for it so you have to<br>
have your PFY keep up with the emails it spits out to ensure that<br>
everything is working. on the other hand its free and it works...<br>
usually :)<br>
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Raymond Norton <<a href="mailto:admin@lctn.org">admin@lctn.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm getting pricing for Veeam to back up our VMWare hosts, but would like to<br>
> avoid the licensing costs. Currently, I use Bacula for all user dat backups,<br>
> but not sure if that is a good choice for backing up entire VMDK files of<br>
> 40+ VMs<br>
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> Any recommendations?<br>
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