Backup Entire Host or Individual VM

[buddylee]

Are there any issues with having one backup job that backs up 12 VMs on a single host instead of having 12 individual jobs? They should all queue and finish anyway right? What is the best practice?

Thanks!!

[foggy]

No issues and this is actually the best practice, to have a single job in this case.

[buddylee]

Thanks!

When the job kicks off would all 12 VMs take a snapshot or does it do the snapshot when the queued VM starts its backup? Does a restore job allow you restore one individual VM from any of the incremental backups still?

[foggy]

VM is snapshotted prior being backed up. Yes, you can restore any of the individual VMs from any of the available restore points.

[Vitaliy S.]

Depending on how many concurrent tasks you have configured on the proxy server/repository, VMs might be queued or snapshotted at the same time.