What is interesting is that in the service provider world, there has been for some time now some thirst to move away from VMware due to a number of reasons…though my belief is still that is you where starting fresh as a service provider, vSphere, NSX and Cloud Director still represents the best hosting platform.
#If the result failed, delete the backup file since it is not valid. $AllVMs = Find-VBRViEntity -Name * | Where-Object | Export-Csv $LogFile -NoTypeInformation -Append
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Automate Backups with Start-VBRZip in Powershell (Veeam Backup Free Edition)
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Also, every time you create a backup, it will always be a full backup. This means that you will need to rely on Powershell and Scheduled Tasks to automate the backup process for you. In case you didn’t know, Veeam Free Backup Edition doesn’t offer support for creating jobs and running them automatically, nor do they support incremental jobs.
In this article I am going to share the script that I created to automate backups with Start-VBRZip in Powershell using Veeam Free Backup Edition.
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Out of all the backup software on the market right now, Veeam is widely regarded as the #1 choice by fellow peers. My backup software of choice is Veeam… hands down. In my lab where I do all my tests and Sysadmin videos on YouTube I always have a backup prior to making the videos, simply because I have to do the same task multiple times in order to get a refresher as well as the actual recording. Sometimes a simple VM snapshot will do, but other times I might need to revert back a couple of days for when things get too out of hand. Before I go into unknown territory I always like to make sure I have my VMs backed up in the event that my tests crap the bed. As a systems administrator I am constantly having to test ways to accomplish new tasks.