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Backup XenApp Master Image

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Hi,
We have a XenApp 7 master image that in VMware settings has no attached disk as it uses vDisk. The associated vmdk files etc are located in a datastore. How do I just backup the associated folder in the VMFS datastore to our backup repository ?

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Re: Backup XenApp Master Image

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So I guess this question can be summed up the following way: How to backup a vmdk file on a datastore that is not attached to a VM.

You can look at our file copy job. It will basically mirror (overwrite at target) what is in a specific folder (or selected files). As it do not take care about the older restore points, you need maybe multiple of the file copy jobs to maintain a restore point chain.

Other options:
File2Tape Jobs (you can select the files directly on the esxi host as source)
Mount the datastore to a linux system and back it up with the upcoming VAL3.0.
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Re: Backup XenApp Master Image

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Hi Andreas,
Thanks for that, I ended up using a file copy job to copy the folder to the C:\ drive and then using Veeam Agent to backup to our Store Once.

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Re: Backup XenApp Master Image

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yes that would work. I guess you can chain the 2 jobs together at the scheduler section, so that one or the other job run only if the previous one was successfull. To avoid the deletion of older restore points without having new data.
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Re: Backup XenApp Master Image

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Hmmm … Couldn't see where to chain the jobs together, there was no option for that in the Veeam Agent job
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