Backup is an essential part of the business workflow for many of our customers – be it SMB, Enterprise Server Virtualisation or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Making the backup experience smoother is high up on our wishlist at XenServer Engineering and the delivery of improved VM import/export performance in XS 7.1 shows our commitment to that end. To continue improving our services supporting the backup ecosystem, we would like to better understand how you use backup with XenServer
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How often do you backup? Do you have multiple jobs for monthly, weekly, daily backups?
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How do you create your backups?
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Use VM Export to backup VM metadata + disks
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Snapshot at the VM level and use transfer/service VM to read off the snapshots
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Use vdi-export to create differential disks (.vhd)
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Do you use a third-party vendor for handling your backups?
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Would support for incremental backups be useful for your use case?
Please leave a comment with your answers and any issues you may have with your backup experience today. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you,
Chandrika
