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      Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

      Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

      Unchecking the use VSS checkbox I assume? Did it finish successfully and were you able to mount it afterwards and restore a test file from it?

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        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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        @Obsolesce said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

        @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

        Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

        Unchecking the use VSS checkbox I assume? Did it finish successfully and were you able to mount it afterwards and restore a test file from it?

        Yes, we've restored to Hyper-V on a Windows 10 workstation so that we know that the backup is good BEFORE destroying the server!

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          Emad R @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

          ba

          Yeah use
          ESXi ovftool

          better to use it on another VM close to that VM, so you get max network speeds.

          Import:
ovftool --disableVerification --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify --datastore=SSD_RAID_10 --noImageFiles -dm=thin /home/medo/ISO/OVA/test.ova vi://root:PASSWORD@10.50.251.100

Export:
ovftool --disableVerification --noSSLVerify -dm=thin vi://root:PASSWORD@10.50.251.100/Vardot_Ubuntu_OVA /home/medo/ISO/OVA/test.ova

To Import with diff name:
ovftool --disableVerification --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify --datastore=SSD_RAID_10 --noImageFiles -dm=thin --name=OVA_TESTER /home/medo/ISO/OVA/Vardot_Ubuntu_OVA.ova vi://root:PASSWORD@10.50.251.100
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            jmoore @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

            Ended up using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

            Sysinternals is truly great

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              scottalanmiller @Emad R
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              @Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

              better to use it on another VM close to that VM

              No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

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                dafyre
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                I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

                https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

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                  scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                  @dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                  I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

                  https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

                  Duplicati worked for the traditional backup (until the drive failed.)

                  Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

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                    Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                    @dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                    I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

                    https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

                    Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

                    Oh so you a fully bootable and stable VM from it without VSS?

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                      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                      @Obsolesce said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                      @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                      @dafyre said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                      I may be late to the party, but what about Cobian Backup?

                      https://www.cobiansoft.com/ ?

                      Disk2VHD worked for the P2V conversion.

                      Oh so you a fully bootable and stable VM from it without VSS?

                      I think that it used VSS, but because we could shut down all other VMs, it worked.

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                        Emad R @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                        @Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                        better to use it on another VM close to that VM

                        No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

                        Oh you can run it from any where, as long as you can ping the ESXi or reach it. but i prefer a VM cause its faster

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                          scottalanmiller @Emad R
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                          @Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                          @scottalanmiller said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                          @Emad-R said in One Time, Non-Image, Windows Backup Client:

                          better to use it on another VM close to that VM

                          No other VM. If we open the only other VM, ESXi can't work. So that tool, I'd expect, couldn't actually run.

                          Oh you can run it from any where, as long as you can ping the ESXi or reach it. but i prefer a VM cause its faster

                          I see. That was a problem for us because we couldn't transfer off of the server, their network wasn't fast enough 😞

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