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easyVCB

Introduction

Installation

Usage

Support

Please go to the new official home page of easyVCB: http://easyvcb.sourceforge.net. These pages are only for historic reference.

A simple, but complete backup solution for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3

Introduction

easyVCB is a backup software to be used with VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Consolidated Backup. The purpose of easyVCB is to create a full image backup of (all) Virtual Machines in a farm of ESX 3 servers. To this effect easyVCB provides the backup logic and storage management missing with plain VCB as shipped by VMware.

easyVCB has been developed to create a complete disaster recovery process chain based on VCB and modifies the VMs after the backup to prepare for a disaster recovery deployment to VMware Server and VMware ESX Server.

easyVCB is intended to be installed and used on the VCB proxy server.

How It Works

easyVCB combines four major features into one product:

select VMs to backup according to datastore path or special tag
use vcbmounter to copy the VM from the ESX server to the VCB proxy
remove old backups when the backup disk gets full
convert the VM to be compatible with VMware Server / Player / Workstation
optimize the VM to run better in a disaster recovery environment

With these features easyVCB can be used as a stand-alone backup software that will keep a copy of (all) VMs with as many historic versions as there is disk space available.

For instant disaster recovery it is possible to simply start a VM on the VCB proxy host using the modified .VMX file created by easyVCB. More complex disaster recovery scenarios can also be easily implemented.

What is new ?

2008-12-05: New version 1.5 released. It containts lots of bug fixes, several new features and VI Perl SDK 1.6 support.
2008-07-08: New version 1.4 released. If the free space requirements are set to 0, then easyVCB will always keep a fixed amount of old backups (set in BACKUPSTOKEEP).
2008-06-27: Fixed small bug with missing VM path in export dir. Please see installation notes for migrating from previous versions !
2008-06-24: Released easyVCB 1.2 with full support for backup to network shares and lots of bug fixes.
2008-06-02: Initial Release Version 1.0

License

easyVCB is licensed under the GNU General Public License

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last modified 2008-12-05 10:23:00