Is there a way to take VMware snapshots instead of production data?
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See points 7 & 8 here (I looked it up for my review as well) 😊
Veeam backs up the read-only (i.e. parent/source) VM disk.
Wait...you’re saying that if there is a delta disk and then Veeam creates a snap for the backup, it only reads the base disk and doesn’t look for changed blocks in the delta? Easy enough to test, but I assumed it reads the delta’s as well.
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At least I remember people bugging me saying. “what are these, can I get rid of them”.. check if no backup in running first :).
Had someone ask me that yesterday. Had a string of about 6 snapshots on a VM asking me if it was okay to commit them.
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See points 7 & 8 here (I looked it up for my review as well) 😊
Veeam backs up the read-only (i.e. parent/source) VM disk.
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Sorry to disagree
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That’s right
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At least I remember people bugging me saying. “what are these, can I get rid of them”.. check if no backup in running first :).
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I think if I have not been out of the game too long :) that that is what Veeam does. You can see VEEAM TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT in your list of snapshots, which should go away but there are times when due to communication issues with vsphere they get stuck.
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No... Veeam doesn't backup snapshots. Veeam can take a backup of Storage Snapshots though, & can even be used to orchestrate the Storage Snaps too. Doing so significantly reduces the load on your VM production environment.
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Hi
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Hi
My apologies what I’m asking, is there a way to backup VMware snapshots rather than actual production data?
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