Veeam Backup 3.0: faster backup than with VCB?
Today Veeam Backup 3.0 was released and the big eye-catcher of this backup and recovery tool is that it is the first tool ever that supports ESXi without the use of VCB:
Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of ESXi, including ESXi free.
As I’m using ESXi at home I decided to quickly test if there was a speed difference in backup with Veeam backup 3.0 vs Veeam Backup 3.0 with VCB (over LAN) vs Backup Exec 12.5 with VCB (over LAN). The VM has a disk size of 10GB and has 6,5 GB files on it. In all situations the backup-destination was to disk.
Here are the stats: … Continue Reading
Hint : VI Backup products don’t like bashrc customization !
Yesterday and today my colleague Rob Mokkink and I were getting very negative feelings towards the VizionCore vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup products, but like often, the problem existed behind the keyboard. But we prefer to call it an “undescribed feature” of these products.
We downloaded the latest versions of both products to see which product would fit best in our current environment and connecting to the Virtual Center servers went flawless but with neither of the 2 products we could connect to our ESX hosts. Errors that occured were errors that nobody experienced before, according to the product support forums. … Continue Reading
Veeam Backup 2.0 is now available!
I juste received an e-mail from Veeam that their next version of Veeam Backup has been released.
Here’s the content of this e-mail:
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You asked for it, you’ve got it! At Veeam Software we take feedback from our customers and partners very seriously. ”Listening to you, building the tools you need” is our motto, and we mean it. Today’s release of Veeam Backup version 2.0 is evidence of our commitment, as it includes major new features suggested by you, our customers. These include:A new optimized engine for up to five times faster backup and replication than the previous version
 Veeam Backup 2.0 Product demo |
