What Are You Doing Right Now
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Thinking I should really set-up some kind of backup for ESXi11 as it now has 11 VM's running on it. OK mainly Test machines and Linux servers but just in case lol
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@hobbit666 What version of ESXi are you using?
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@hobbit666 Yeah but essentials plus, or the free edition or what?
I guess version is a bit misleading, sorry.
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@DustinB3403 LOL Free
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@Minion-Queen said:
@DustinB3403 Email is actually more appropriate, with maybe a text to say I sent an email take a look. After 9pm unless there is an outage don't bother employees at home.
Email is,.. but it's one of those things for me at least - I have my phone set with DnD hours. After 9pm I won't hear it. Texts, Emails and most calls won't be noticed unless I pick up my phone and look.
Now if you repeat call, or if you are in my list,.. then I will. but again that is calls.. not emails or texts. heck - my phone won't even pull new mail like it suppose to.. and it's set to.
Come August - iPhone 6 or something...
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@hobbit666 said:
@DustinB3403 LOL Free
So what sort of backup system do you plan to use, clearly nothing at the Hypervisor level. 11 VM's seems like a very trivial amount of VM's to migrate to Xen Server.
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@DustinB3403 Unitrends Free - Backup to Local NAS daily then weekly to something like RDX (just in case) as I said these are mainly things like unifi controller, Zabbix, our Gold Windows image for deployment etc. so not mission critical if they disappear and I have to restore an old version.
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Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
I didn't know that if it was.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
They can never decide. We literally get a different answer every time that we ask. And often the explanation contradicts the answer. So we assume.... no.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
I didn't know that if it was.
But if it is working, then yes.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
I didn't know that if it was.
See now in a few minutes when I've got it installed and started lol
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Just started the upgrade to Marshmallow Android.... crosses fingers
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@hobbit666 said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
I didn't know that if it was.
See now in a few minutes when I've got it installed and started lol
Any update?
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hmmmm can't seem to add extra storage locations to Unitrends FREE edition.
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@wirestyle22 said:
@RojoLoco said:
Just started the upgrade to Marshmallow Android.... crosses fingers
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Upgrade complete - that was pretty quick. Looks like all my stuff is still there too. #Fridaywinning
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Is Unitrends Free applicable to the free version of ESXi?
They can never decide. We literally get a different answer every time that we ask. And often the explanation contradicts the answer. So we assume.... no.
If you can install an agent - why not? Don't worry about the ESXi APIs.
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87 notifications in 3 hours...damn :')
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Nothing can backup ESXi for free via API. This restrictions is 100% locked by VMWare.
If you open SSH you can use scripts to do so under the hood that make a snapshot and SCP it off.
Unitrends markets that they can backup ESXi Free because they have the agent. That is not a VM backup and should not be considered one. It is a Server OS backup.