Soldato
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I used to use VEEAM as well, using both full and incremental backups of VMs. Means you can do a granular restore on VMs, mounting the VM and extracting things from it too.
I ran these daily, and a weekly full, to Disk. I used BackupExec to LTO4-5 tapes for my offsite backup cycle. These were weekly full VM backups.
As well as this we had Dell Equalogics replicating volumes across to our DR equalogics, again, via not an amazing conn, so only the changes replicated.
You can use that replication for your VM host as well, so that you have an added layer of protection. vMotion, 2 different hosts, replicated, all backed up. Job done.
I ran these daily, and a weekly full, to Disk. I used BackupExec to LTO4-5 tapes for my offsite backup cycle. These were weekly full VM backups.
As well as this we had Dell Equalogics replicating volumes across to our DR equalogics, again, via not an amazing conn, so only the changes replicated.
You can use that replication for your VM host as well, so that you have an added layer of protection. vMotion, 2 different hosts, replicated, all backed up. Job done.