Back up "shared" VMs on VMware Workstation 15.5? Auto-compress scheduled backups?

[DiWiT]

Hi, I am running VMware Workstation 15 Pro (15.5.1 build-15018445) on a Windows Server 2019 computer.
I have 3 Linux VMs running on VMware Workstation and they are "shared" VMs (so they can be set to auto-start when the computer starts).
So my question is: will I be able to back up those "shared" Linux VMs, running on VMware Workstation 15.5.1, on a Windows 2019 computer, using the paid version of Vimalin?
Thanks.

[wila]

Hello DiWit,

Yes that should work.
You can try it out for yourself. The application works unlimited for 60 days and after that you loose the ability to schedule backups, but even then you can still make (and restore) backups.
Be it shared VM's or normal VM's.

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Wil

[DiWiT]

Thanks, this seems to be working.
Also, I see you can right-click on the backup and select "compress" to compress it, but is there a way to automatically compress scheduled backups without me having to manually compress them?
Thanks.

[wila]

Hi,

Good to hear that it works for you.
As for the question on compressing the backups automatically, sadly that's currently not a feature.
It's on the list to look into, but I can't make any promises on when that might arrive.

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Wil

[DiWiT]

ok, thanks for confirming.

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Also, another good feature would be the ability to select multiple VMs and assign a schedule to all of them as a group, so when the backup of the first VM is done, the backup of next VM in the list starts automatically.
Right now, from what I see, I have to assign a schedule to each VM individually. So, if I want to back up 3 VMs, I need to create a schedule for 4am, another one for 5am and another one for 6am, then assign each VM to one of these schedules.
But what happens if the backup of one of the VMs takes longer than 1 hour? They will overlap; or if the backup of a VM only takes 15 minutes? The backup process will not do anything until the next VM backup is scheduled to start, 45 minutes later.
Hope this makes sense, or maybe there is a way to do what I say and I just missed it.
Thanks!

[wila]

Hi,

Sure, I get it.

The solution is easier.. you can assign all VM's the same schedule and the backup's will be staggered.
Vimalin will run one backup after the other.

If you want to have a specific backup order then you can run one a bit earlier than the others. The backup for the next VM won't start until the previous backup has completed.
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Wil

[DiWiT]

ah ok, that's good to know, will try that, thanks!