How to setup Jobs

[b4bol4t]

Hi,

I have a backup job with 54 VM's taking ~5 hours to complete (1.3TB). (whole cluster)
When i split my jobs to 4 different jobs I can reduce time to 2,5 hours.
I have 4 ESXI hosts, so I created a job for each one of them.

We use balancing on the ESXI hosts so it could be possible that a VM will not be there anymore while the backup is running, because of migration.
What will happen?

Is there a way that I can just backup the cluster splitted in ~4jobs?
So if there would be a fifth host in the future this one will be added automatically ?

Thanks, Tony

[Gostev]

Hi Tony, best way to setup the job is using VM folders or datastores. This way, your jobs will be unaffected by any changes in your environment. Thanks!

[b4bol4t]

Hi Gostev,

My datastore contains all the VM's...
The folders change many times in our environment, so I have to make sure all my VM's are included all the time.
It would be nice to be able to split the whoel job automatically in 4 Jobs.
Any suggestion?

[Gostev]

Only what I said above. Majority of our customers use VM folders.

[b4bol4t]

OK, thank you.

However I would like to know what will happen in this case:
When having my 4 jobs selected each 1 single ESXI Host.
Could it be possible that a VM will not be there anymore while the backup is running, because of migration. ?

Thanks!

[foggy]

Yes, if a VM is migrated to another host, it will be automatically picked up by the corresponding job. There is an existing discussion about this, please review.