I have a ESx 3.5 environment, and am looking at backing up at the vm level, rather than in guest as I am currently doing. I was reading the documentation, and I noticed tha you backup "on the fly". Does this mean that you do not copy the vm locally first to the proxy server, and then perform the backup? But rather it goes directly to the final disk location?
I ask this because I have a couple of 600GB vmdk files, and I do not want to copy them to local storage, and then to the disk storage.
I am also thinking of doing a vmdk type backup on the weekends, and then doing an incremental within the vm. Will the VEaam backup allow me to reset the archive bit in the vm?
Thanks for you help, I am trying to understand how it works, so that I get it right. I prefer to go with Veamm, rather than any other products.

Thanks