bazaarvcb do fast backup and restore of VMs running on VMware ESXi 5.X
bazaarVCB is a fast backup solution for free the version of VMware ESXi.
bazaarVCB is very fast, up to 80Mo/s on middle-end hardware.
bazaarVCB is composed by command line tools driven by a friendly GUI (coming soon) to create and schedule backup jobs.
The PRO version (coming soon) will include storage deduplication and VM synchronizations.
bazaarvcb works on most Linux and Windows OS. It backup VMware ESXi 5.x.
ESXi 4.x will be partially supported if possible.
Download from http://www.magiksys.net/download/bazaarvcb.
Don’t worry about installation, bazaarvcb is a single self contained executable file.
Their is 3 versions that you can download from http://www.magiksys.net/download/bazaarvcb.
The name are self explanatory, take the one that match your system ! Uncompress the archive and copy the program bazaarvcb.exe, or bazarrvcb somewhere in your PATH. For example in /usr/local/bin for Linux systems.
The win32 file is 32bit and works also on all Windows 64bits but cannot be copied to system32 or Program Files that are reserved for 64bits applications. Copy it somewhere else and us the full path or add the path to the PATH variable.
Send your questions to bazaarvcb.support@magiksys.net
VM’s disks contains some unused space, if this space contains zeros, bazzarvcb can use sparse file to store these disk images. A freshly installed system on a 1To disk will use only few Giga on the backup host.
In the future bazaarvcb will be able to write to a self managed deduplicated repository. Multiple VMs will be stored on the same repository and take benefit of block sharing between VMs.
Then SSH service must be started on the ESXi host. bazaarvcb tunnels the https connection into the SSH connection.
Because SSH is very CPU intensive, the ESXi agent try to open an un-encrypted connection back to the backup host only for data. It it fail, then it fallback to the existing SSH connection. The default port is 31031. This is the one used by VMotion and this port is open on the ESXi by default. You must open this port on your backup host. On Windows just reply yes to the popup Windows the first time you run bazaarVCB. The reason why this is the ESXi host that open the data channel back to the backup host is technical and could change in the future. If you need to use VMotion then use another port.
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