All versions / Evolution : Backup from custom snapshot

[JuA]

Hi,

Is is possible to backup from a VMware snapshot created "manually" (not created by Veeam) ? If not possible, it would be a great/cool option

Regards,

Julien

[Shestakov]

Hi Julien,
I don`t think it`s possible because Veeam initiates the snapshot creation when the job is started.
Could you describe your use case? Why do you keep manually created snapshots by the way?
Thanks!

[JuA]

Hi,

The goal would be to hardly control the creation time of the backup.

Eg : The application people wants a consistency point at 18h30 (+/- some minutes) :
- A first job (not handled by veeam) creates the snapshot on demand. It can synchronously say to the batch that the snapshot was taken.
- Next, the batch (or the veeam scheduler) launch a backup job with settings saying to use the snapshot "XXXMYAPP *".

Even if for any reason the backup task occurs in 5 hours, we have an image at the requested time.

Regards,

Julien

[foggy]

Hi Julien, how many VMs in your environment require such strictly scheduled consistency points?

[JuA]

Potentially all our DB (Postgresql) VMs. It's a lot of VMs.