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#1 Re: General matters » From old free to licensed PRO-issue with GUI TARGET » 2022-09-02 19:40:37

I'm having the same problem as Tzvia with the latest PRO version: no matter which datastore / path within /vmfs/volumes I choose I'm getting the error "Select some datastore, you are trying to copy data out of a datastore". Can somebody please point me to the obvious? Cheers

#2 Re: General matters » OneDiff vs XSIDiff » 2019-04-06 15:53:07

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm giving XSITools a try.

#3 General matters » OneDiff vs XSIDiff » 2019-04-02 16:52:08

ma2white
Replies: 2

Hi,

I've purchased XSIBackup Pro and despite reading through all the documentation provided I am a bit lost in terms of choosing and comprehending the differences between OneDiff and XSIDiff, and combining full backups with differential or incremental.

I want to backup two large VMs (4TB and 8TB, growing slowly, with 95% static data) to local datastores. I have room in these local backup datastores for one full backup of each VM, plus some space for incremental or differential backups. I'd probably do a full backup every two weeks, and incremental/differential backups every day (provided they are fast). I don't necessarily need differential backups; incremental would do, combined with the two-week full backup cycle.

Which of these backup programs are best for what I need?
How do I achieve the two-week full backup cycle with daily incrementals/differentials? Do I need to use XSITools to deduplicate the backups?
Is there a way to speed up the full backups using one of these two backup programs?

Thanks for any feedback.
Mat

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