VMWare backup and replication for ESXi vSphere virtual machines to datastore or differential over IP. No agents, self capable, runs in the hypervisor host, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.5 & ESXi <=6.7 compatible, hot backups.

Consists in a cron programmable service running in the hypervisor. Hot backups, fully functional, standalone, ideal for dedicated servers. Full version supports quiescing, differential backup, deduplication and much more...

Download link: https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html

Free VMWare backup solution for the ESXi hypervisor. Linux style command line tool. Crontab with configurable disk space autoprovision, set the room you want to reserve for your backups and rotate them.

Full backups may be done with vmkfstools or by means of Rsync and its Delta algorithm (read: https://33hops.com/blog_xsibackup-rsync-considerations.html), to a local datastore or over TCP/IP tunneled through SSH, so any transfer over IP is secure.

Features

  • Hot backup of Virtual Machines
  • Backup over IP to ESXi and Linux
  • Differential backup
  • Block level deduplication
  • Backup certification by comparing checksums
  • Detailed e-mail report
  • Extremely lightweight ESXi service

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User Reviews

  • Great tool, works very well. Support is super fast in response (2hours) and this on a FREE product!!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • It works great on ESXi 6.0.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • What if there are several disks on a different datastores ? seems like the script finds them all but cloning to the backup location only the last one found as the others are overwritten by it. if that's the case, then this is bad. correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks
  • It works very well and the reactivity of the author seems to be great. A must have !
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Pretty good software,as every others it can be better. Support is great.
    1 user found this review helpful.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Information Technology, Security Professionals, System Administrators, Testers

User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Virtual Machine Software, Unix Shell Command Line Tools, Unix Shell VMware Software

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2013-08-29