VMware Backup - Best Practice

[andydcliff]

Thanks in advance.
Looking to achieve the following:
15 minute backup of critical servers, and 1 hour backup of less important servers. All other servers will be backed up daily.
We then need a GFS policy to retain 4 weekly, 12 monthly, and 7 yearly backups.
My thoughts are we target VMware resource pools for the 15 minute, hourly and daily backups with the required retention. We then have a backup copy job to secondary storage with the required GFS settings.
Is this the most efficient way in terms of jobs/ storage?
Thanks.

[PetrM]

Hi Andrew,

The plan looks solid at first sight but you may also consider GFS retention policy within a primary backup job.

Thanks!

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi Andrew,

just to add - speaking of the best practice, you can always check veeambp site, might be useful.

Thanks!

[karsten123]

https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2020/03/09/vee ... n-vsphere/

[andydcliff]

Thanks for all the replies. Interesting blog regarding the use of tags as I thought this would increase the storage required.

[andydcliff]

A point I forgot to mention. There are currently over 70 jobs backing up 122 VM's. One of the main drivers is to simplify the backups and optimise storage. Currently there is no retention over 3 months for any item. I'm assuming that no matter which approach is taken a new full backup of each item will be taken when the new jobs are created.

[PetrM]

Yes, a new job always creates full on its first run unless you map it to the existing backup (look for the description under step 3).

Thanks!

[andydcliff]

Great information, Happy New Year all.