running manual VM full backup??

[Farazi]

hello,

I have scheduled jobs with several vm's in one schedule, if i want to do a active full on one vm from a schedule, is there any way to do it.

I know you can right click and do active full but that will run full backup on all the vms on my job, I just want to run on one VM full backup from the several vm's on a schedule job.


Thank you

[Shestakov]

Hello Faraz
You can make Veeam ZIP and you will have a single full backup not related to other chains.
Thanks!

[Farazi]

Thank you,

doesnt veeam zip uses by default C drive?

if i dont have enough space how can i back it up on the multiple extents I have

[Vitaliy S.]

Faraz,

You can try to follow one of the tricks in this topic to achieve what you want > Active Full Per-VM backup?

Thanks!

[Shestakov]

if i dont have enough space how can i back it up on the multiple extents I have

Do you want to store 1 full backup on several extents?

[jmmarton]

doesnt veeam zip uses by default C drive?

I just double-checked and confirmed that when I do a VeeamZIP, I can specify in local path or shared drive. You just need to have enough space somewhere in the environment to do VeeamZIP.

Joe

[Farazi]

okay let me try and see

[Farazi]

can you help me on how to point veeamzip to a specific shared path

[foggy]

When you right-click the VM and select VeemZIP, you have the ability to specify any local or shared path to place the backup to.

[davis_b]

how can I perform an active full on a single vm without having to perform an active full on the whole backup job?

[skrause]

Do you just need a single active full for an archive purpose or do you need it in your chain?

If you just want a one-off full that doesn't have an impact on the job chain, you can do a VeeamZIP on any individual VM.

I don't know of a way to target a single VM in a job for a one-off active full, though if there was it would definitely require per-VM backup chains.

[davis_b]

no it's not for archive purposes, it's to continue with the backup chain.

I have several vm's in the job but only one of them is having an error dealing with the maximum amount of restore points in a chain when saving to a dedupe appliance. I can just kick off an active full on the backup job but the active full will occur on the whole job, I just need an active full on the one vm. This backup job has about 25 vm's so it's not a big job. but I am thinking what if I have this on a backup job with many more, I really don't want to have to run an active full on say for example 80vm's, when I only need to run it on 1.

[Shestakov]

Quick Backup looks like good solution for you.
Thanks!

[gouvi04]

Hi every one,

Myself Vijay G. I have 10 VMs in Backup Job. I want to run active full backup on single vm in Job as per our organization requirement.
Can you please tell me anyone how to run Active full on single VM with out effecting other vm.

Thanks,
Vijay G

[DGrinev]

Hi Vijay and welcome to the community!

You can run a full backup for the particular VM by using VeeamZip.
Please read this thread above for additional information. Thanks!

[gouvi04]

Thank you @DGrinev. Its working.