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Veeam FastSCP

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max8699

max8699

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Nov 14, 2006
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Hi all am new to this product and still learning esx side of things. if i want to use Veeam Fastscp to backup the VM's on the esx hosts do the vm's need to be suspended first or can they be copied live?

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Max
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You would need to stop the VM in order to release the lock on the file to simply SCP the files to another machine.

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As "mrdenny" stated, you would need to power down the VMs. There is an alternative method you can use which involves taking a snapshot of the VM. This would enable you to keep the VM live the entire time while you copy the files. See the linked discussion from the Veeam Forums for more information. I have provided a snippet within the discussion by Veeam Product Manager Anton Gostev which discusses your backup and restore options with "Veeam FastSCP."

On a live VM
Option 1: Shutdown VM and make a backup.
Option 2: Make a snapshot of live VM, make a backup of VM files leaving snapshot files behind, remove snashot with VIC after a backup is complete (VM remains live all the time). This is actually how Veeam Backup works.

Restoring
Copy all files to new ESX and bring up VM (no need to remove snapshots since there won't be any included with you backup). In case of option 2, before starting VM also manually edit VMX to remove snapshot references (I am not sure where exactly those references are located).
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Many Thanks guys, thought that was the case but wanted to confirm.

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Max
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