Automatic inclusion of new vm's in backupjob

[mst1966]

Hi forum,

we have a customer asking if it is possible to set up so that new vm's (vmware) automatically is included in a backupjob?

They create a lot of vm's and wants to be sure that they are backed up even if they by chance should forget forget to include some of them!

BR Morten

[skrause]

There are multiple ways to do this.

I use VM folders as the object in most of my Veeam jobs. When I add a VM to the infrastructure I put it in the folder I want it backed up with and it gets backed up on the next run.

[larry]

I backup by datastore, all VMs in a datastore get backed up. Use tags to exclude VMs you don't want. We set datastores up by RPO/RTO that way if a VM is placed in the right data store everything is automatic with RTO/RPT and DR.

[jmmarton]

To summarize it: any container object within vSphere can be used in a backup job which would then automate VM selection. And to add to Larry's point on vSphere tags, those can be used easily for VM selection or for VM exclusion.

Joe

[Cragdoo]

yeah, I'd be tempted to go with tags

https://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/usi ... rotection/

only thing to be aware is you can't combine tags (a common feature requests)