A simple, but complete backup solution for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3

Introduction

easyVCB is a backup software to be used with VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Consolidated Backup. The purpose of easyVCB is to create a full image backup of (all) Virtual Machines in a farm of ESX 3 servers. To this effect easyVCB provides the backup logic and storage management missing with plain VCB as shipped by VMware.

easyVCB is intended to be installed and used on the VCB proxy server.

How It Works

easyVCB combines four major features into one product:

• select VMs to backup according to datastore path or special tag
• use vcbmounter to copy the VM from the ESX server to the VCB proxy
• remove old backups when the backup disk gets full
• convert the VM to be compatible with VMware Server / Player / Workstation

With these features easyVCB can be used as a stand-alone backup software that will keep a copy of (all) VMs with as many historic versions as there is disk space available.

For instant disaster recovery it is possible to simply start a VM on the VCB proxy host using the modified .VMX file created by easyVCB. More complex disaster recovery scenarios can also be easily implemented.

What is new ?

2008-07-08

New version 1.4 released. If the free space requirements are set to 0, then easyVCB will always keep a fixed amount of old backups (set in BACKUPSTOKEEP).

2008-06-27

Fixed small bug with missing VM path in export dir. Please see installation notes for migrating from previous versions !

2008-06-24

Released easzVCB 1.2 with full support for backup to network shares and lots of bug fixes.

2008-06-02

Initial Release Version 1.0

License

easyVCB is licensed under the GNU General Public License

Copyright (©) 2008 Schlomo Schapiro, probusiness Berlin AG

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