https://forums.antwise.com/ Thu, 14 May 2026 13:57:39 +0000 MyBB https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=231 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:48:00 +0100 DiWiT]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=231
I just updated to the latest version on Windows and the process to do that is to uninstall the program, keeping the database, then install the latest version.

I was wondering is it possible to backup or export that database where backup jobs, schedules and other configs are kept? Is it a file somewhere? A registry key? I see there is a sqlite3.dll file in the installation folder so maybe it keeps a SQL database somewhere?

Thanks!]]>
I just updated to the latest version on Windows and the process to do that is to uninstall the program, keeping the database, then install the latest version.

I was wondering is it possible to backup or export that database where backup jobs, schedules and other configs are kept? Is it a file somewhere? A registry key? I see there is a sqlite3.dll file in the installation folder so maybe it keeps a SQL database somewhere?

Thanks!]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=224 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:41:04 +0200 Paolo Albera]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=224
thank you!

Paolo]]>
thank you!

Paolo]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=205 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:53:44 +0100 DiWiT]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=205 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.]]> 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.]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=202 Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:22:43 +0200 dantel]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=202 https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=194 Fri, 31 May 2024 20:12:41 +0200 MPERNA-Unidata]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=194
Thanks!!]]>
Thanks!!]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=192 Tue, 21 May 2024 21:34:12 +0200 MPERNA-Unidata]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=192 In the past with  windows 10 I could install vimalin as local admin, then let local non admin user backup VMs I set with running the application as the local admin account inside the users profile that did not have local admin. Though the non admin user could not make any changes to the current backup jobs nor could they start the GUI application. but the backups ran fine.

So two questions:
1. Can this application run and without local admin rights n windows 11
2. Is it possible to at the very lest get it to run like it did on windows 10 where i could set the user's backup jobs as an admin then let it run in the background? If i try this on windows 11 it will not start the service. because the local user does not have the rights to do so.

thanks!]]> In the past with  windows 10 I could install vimalin as local admin, then let local non admin user backup VMs I set with running the application as the local admin account inside the users profile that did not have local admin. Though the non admin user could not make any changes to the current backup jobs nor could they start the GUI application. but the backups ran fine.

So two questions:
1. Can this application run and without local admin rights n windows 11
2. Is it possible to at the very lest get it to run like it did on windows 10 where i could set the user's backup jobs as an admin then let it run in the background? If i try this on windows 11 it will not start the service. because the local user does not have the rights to do so.

thanks!]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=187 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:32:39 +0100 Sontec]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=187 I have someone who sold their company, but kept their server for tax purposes (you need to save administration for 5 years).
To save energie, this customer shutdown their host computer when the virtual server is not needed.

I would like to install Vimalin and backup the VMs once a week.
Will Vimalin backup the VMs if the backup time has passed and the host was off ?
Is there a way to let Vimalin backup a missed backup when the host finally is turned on again ?]]> I have someone who sold their company, but kept their server for tax purposes (you need to save administration for 5 years).
To save energie, this customer shutdown their host computer when the virtual server is not needed.

I would like to install Vimalin and backup the VMs once a week.
Will Vimalin backup the VMs if the backup time has passed and the host was off ?
Is there a way to let Vimalin backup a missed backup when the host finally is turned on again ?]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=184 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:06:07 +0100 Sontec]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=184 Had to restore some Vimalin backups last weekend and noticed on
one of the restores, the .vmx was missing.
It was also missing within the Vimalin target folder.

Luckily I was able to copy the .vmx from the corrupted VM.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
Am I using an old Vimalin or one with a bug ?]]> Had to restore some Vimalin backups last weekend and noticed on
one of the restores, the .vmx was missing.
It was also missing within the Vimalin target folder.

Luckily I was able to copy the .vmx from the corrupted VM.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
Am I using an old Vimalin or one with a bug ?]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=183 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:01:50 +0100 Sontec]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=183 Recently some of our servers were infected.
For the most important servers we luckilly had Vimalin backups,
however I noticed that restoring e.g. a 500GB and a 900GB virtual machine
from normal harddisk takes a long time

Nowadays my VMs are running from NVMe RAID with a Vimalin backup to a big harddisk.

Would you consider extending Vimalin with a way to backup/restore from a fast disk?

I would like Vimalin to first backup to a fast disk e.g. NvME or SSD and afterwards copy it to a "slow" HDD.
I could then add a 4TB disk as go between, so Vimalin would backup faster.
Preferable the fast between disk would keep the last x backups (next to them being on the big harddisk).
This way backup would be fast, but more important if I want to restore a recent backup,
it would be faster than the 100-150MB/s I recently experienced ]]> Recently some of our servers were infected.
For the most important servers we luckilly had Vimalin backups,
however I noticed that restoring e.g. a 500GB and a 900GB virtual machine
from normal harddisk takes a long time

Nowadays my VMs are running from NVMe RAID with a Vimalin backup to a big harddisk.

Would you consider extending Vimalin with a way to backup/restore from a fast disk?

I would like Vimalin to first backup to a fast disk e.g. NvME or SSD and afterwards copy it to a "slow" HDD.
I could then add a 4TB disk as go between, so Vimalin would backup faster.
Preferable the fast between disk would keep the last x backups (next to them being on the big harddisk).
This way backup would be fast, but more important if I want to restore a recent backup,
it would be faster than the 100-150MB/s I recently experienced ]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=179 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:02:27 +0100 Kevinski_Patrichovich]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=179
I have been trying to install Vimalin on a Windows 11 machine and cannot seem to get the username / password to accept. Every time it throws the following error

Error while installing the service (Code 3) Did you enter the correct password?


My username / password is linked to a Microsoft account as it decreed by my company but has administrator rights to the pc. The password is complex with non standard characters.
I'm assuming either or both of these may be the issue.

I have tried on another pc with a less stringent username / password combination and it seems to install fine. 

Any thoughts?

Kev]]>
I have been trying to install Vimalin on a Windows 11 machine and cannot seem to get the username / password to accept. Every time it throws the following error

Error while installing the service (Code 3) Did you enter the correct password?


My username / password is linked to a Microsoft account as it decreed by my company but has administrator rights to the pc. The password is complex with non standard characters.
I'm assuming either or both of these may be the issue.

I have tried on another pc with a less stringent username / password combination and it seems to install fine. 

Any thoughts?

Kev]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=130 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:42:00 +0200 Sontec]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=130 I while ago, about 3 of my VM guest were broken, because a .VMDK was probably deleted by the virusscanner.
Thanks to your hint, I excluded the VmWare folders in Defender now, so this should not happen anymore.

I have Vimalin scheduled to keep 4 backups of every Vmware, but because I was to late,
all good backups were overwritten by bad ones.

To overcome this in the future, I want to ask for the following feature:
Could you check before the backup starts, if the Vmware is consistent (e.g. no missing files, and should be in "running" state)

Also this just came to mind, would you also consider adding a configuration switch to ONLY backup,
the Vmware when it is running ?
Just doing the restores rightnow, I see Vimalin kept backing up the Vmware guests, though they were not running.
So my "good" backups were overwritten by "bad" once.

I hope you will consider the above requests. ]]> I while ago, about 3 of my VM guest were broken, because a .VMDK was probably deleted by the virusscanner.
Thanks to your hint, I excluded the VmWare folders in Defender now, so this should not happen anymore.

I have Vimalin scheduled to keep 4 backups of every Vmware, but because I was to late,
all good backups were overwritten by bad ones.

To overcome this in the future, I want to ask for the following feature:
Could you check before the backup starts, if the Vmware is consistent (e.g. no missing files, and should be in "running" state)

Also this just came to mind, would you also consider adding a configuration switch to ONLY backup,
the Vmware when it is running ?
Just doing the restores rightnow, I see Vimalin kept backing up the Vmware guests, though they were not running.
So my "good" backups were overwritten by "bad" once.

I hope you will consider the above requests. ]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=116 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:09:44 +0200 robyapchanyk]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=116
So I found out about this app and figured it would be perfect for me, even bought a license before trying it out! 

I have since uninstalled Vimalin, but I wanted to at least post about the issue I had for reference and (possible) troubleshooting.

System/VM specifics:

• Intel i9-9900K
  
• 64GB RAM
  
• Dual Samsung EVO 970 500GB NVMe in RAID 0 config for 1TB volume total - this is the boot drive and where the VM resides
  
• VMWare Workstation Pro 16.2.3
  
• Host is Windows 11 Pro (x64)
  
• Guest VM is Windows 10 Pro (x64), disk size ~ 275GB, 24GB RAM allocated to VM
  

Okay, so I configured everything (I won't get into the UI/UX, but that could really use improvements) and let the scheduled job run. It got to creating snapshot and the whole system becomes either partially or completely unusable (in waves). Mouse stutters, windows (host applications) unresponsive, VM completely frozen. After 25 minutes, Vimalin indicated the snapshot was done and it moved onto copying the files. Once that step was reached, things were fine while it copied the snapshot to the backup target - I was able to use the host and VM.

I even shut everything down and rebooted host and VM, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but the same thing occurred when I kicked off the new backup. Also note that the Event Viewer showed no suspect entries during the time the snapshot was being created and the system useability dropped dramatically.

The goal for me was to have this run daily, but also be able to use the VM/host during the backup - I expected some resource utilization/contention, but being unable to use the host/VM during the backup defeats the purpose, as I could shutdown the VM and copy the VM folder faster than this process and would still be able to use the host.

Anyway, just wanted to give you my feedback and issues.]]>
So I found out about this app and figured it would be perfect for me, even bought a license before trying it out! 

I have since uninstalled Vimalin, but I wanted to at least post about the issue I had for reference and (possible) troubleshooting.

System/VM specifics:

• Intel i9-9900K
  
• 64GB RAM
  
• Dual Samsung EVO 970 500GB NVMe in RAID 0 config for 1TB volume total - this is the boot drive and where the VM resides
  
• VMWare Workstation Pro 16.2.3
  
• Host is Windows 11 Pro (x64)
  
• Guest VM is Windows 10 Pro (x64), disk size ~ 275GB, 24GB RAM allocated to VM
  

Okay, so I configured everything (I won't get into the UI/UX, but that could really use improvements) and let the scheduled job run. It got to creating snapshot and the whole system becomes either partially or completely unusable (in waves). Mouse stutters, windows (host applications) unresponsive, VM completely frozen. After 25 minutes, Vimalin indicated the snapshot was done and it moved onto copying the files. Once that step was reached, things were fine while it copied the snapshot to the backup target - I was able to use the host and VM.

I even shut everything down and rebooted host and VM, just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but the same thing occurred when I kicked off the new backup. Also note that the Event Viewer showed no suspect entries during the time the snapshot was being created and the system useability dropped dramatically.

The goal for me was to have this run daily, but also be able to use the VM/host during the backup - I expected some resource utilization/contention, but being unable to use the host/VM during the backup defeats the purpose, as I could shutdown the VM and copy the VM folder faster than this process and would still be able to use the host.

Anyway, just wanted to give you my feedback and issues.]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=106 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:28:37 +0200 mrcfisher]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=106
It's my 2 Encrypted VMs I really need to backup, so is there any update on that project please?

Thx
Martin]]>
It's my 2 Encrypted VMs I really need to backup, so is there any update on that project please?

Thx
Martin]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=103 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:34:34 +0100 gapazz]]> https://forums.antwise.com/showthread.php?tid=103

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Any suggestions what to try?  There's no domain controller.

Thx
Martin]]>
Any suggestions what to try?  There's no domain controller.

Thx
Martin]]>