2021-03-08, 17:46:52
Hello Adam,
What you would want for running backups every 10 minutes is block change tracking and none of the VMware desktop products currently offer block change tracking.
This is a feature for the data center products from VMware, not for the desktop products.
So that would mean that I would have to implement that myself and while that certainly would be an interesting challenge, it is currently out of scope.
What Vimalin currently does is to make full VM copies for every backup.
So each and every backup is 120GB in size (probably more if the VM is running as each backup will also contain RAM and VM state)
Running constant backups plus having constant backups snapshots (create and commit) is not going to make you happy with the constraints you have in mind.
For these kind of backup demands, you're probably have to go looking for an in-guest backup method.
Sorry that I do not have better news for you.
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Wil
What you would want for running backups every 10 minutes is block change tracking and none of the VMware desktop products currently offer block change tracking.
This is a feature for the data center products from VMware, not for the desktop products.
So that would mean that I would have to implement that myself and while that certainly would be an interesting challenge, it is currently out of scope.
What Vimalin currently does is to make full VM copies for every backup.
So each and every backup is 120GB in size (probably more if the VM is running as each backup will also contain RAM and VM state)
Running constant backups plus having constant backups snapshots (create and commit) is not going to make you happy with the constraints you have in mind.
For these kind of backup demands, you're probably have to go looking for an in-guest backup method.
Sorry that I do not have better news for you.
--
Wil