Features

The vSphere Plugin provides virtual machine bare metal recovery, while the backup at the guest level simplifies data protection of critical applications.

The Plugin integrates VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology to ensure only blocks that have changed since the initial Full, and/or the last Incremental or Differential backup are sent to the current Incremental or Differential backup stream to give you more efficient backups and reduced network load.

See the features list:

• vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection based online backups

• VSS-based guest snapshots for quiescing VSS-based applications

• Full, Differential and Incremental image-level backups of virtual machines

• Restores complete virtual machine images

• Restores vmdk files to alternate directory

• Supports both TCP/IP and SAN (FC/iSCSI) VMware datastore access

• NBD (Network Block Device), HotAdd, or SAN access

• The vSphere Plugin is compatible with Copy/Migration jobs. In order for Incremental vSphere Plugin backup jobs to be compatible with Copy Jobs, the devices in the destination Storage Daemon must have the setting “Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1”. If this option is not set, then restores from Incremental copied vSphere backup jobs may not be possible. Read the blb:MigrationChapter documentation for more information.

Along with the vSphere Plugin, Bacula Systems provides additional packages which allows:

• Single Item Restore

• Instant Recovery

from vSphere Plugin backups of VMware VMs. It also integrates with the autodiscovery of new VM with the Scan Plugin

See also

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