Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?

Re:Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? by raxxorraxor on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:48AM (#41645538)

I haven't administered such a system, but I have good experience with Veeam. Deleted the wrong SQL table by accident? Absolutely no problem to restore it without even needing to reboot any server or restart services. There are countless option for import/export that Veeam provides.

We also use Nimble for snapshots every 15 minutes on some servers, although not our databases afaik. Pretty effective if a worst case ransom attack was successful on a user with too many access rights.

These solutions aren't cheap though.

Privately I just use multiple hard drives and for database servers I would use the internal backup functionalities, which are pretty good on most databases.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? by fefferkorn on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:45AM (#41678173)

Veeam is really beast when it comes to Microsoft Tech... they even are able to recover mails back to users Inbox in Exchange directly on the server. But very expensive, yes.

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