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Veeam Backup and VIX libraries: howto backup networkless VMs using VSS

Luca Dell'Oca, June 25, 2013December 4, 2016

Microsoft VSS libraries are a smart way of doing backup, in order to guarantee a consistent backup of applications supporting them.
Veeam can do backups without the help of permanent agents inside the virtual machines, anyway if you want to do a VSS-based backup, Veeam deployes (and removes when the backup is completed) a small agent in the Windows VM in order to cohordinate VSS tasks. Usually, this is done by connecting to the target VM via network.
But, what happens when for any reason Veeam is in another network of the one used by the virtual machine, or they cannot communicate to each other?
In these situations Veeam can leverage VMware VIX libraries, that allow for direct interaction between the guest operating system inside a VM using the hypervisor running it, without any need for network connectivity.

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Veeam Backup e le librerie VIX: come fare backup VSS di VM non connesse in rete

Luca Dell'Oca, June 25, 2013December 4, 2016

Da quando Microsoft ha introdotto le funzioni VSS, è diventata buona norma utilizzare queste librerie per garantire un backup consistente degli applicativi che le supportano. Veeam effettua i backup senza l’uso di agent permanenti nelle virtual machine, tuttavia in caso si voglia realizzare un backup tramite VSS, Veeam provvede a…

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How to backup Lotus Domino in Windows using VMware Tools and not VSS

Luca Dell'Oca, May 15, 2013December 4, 2016

For people managing data protection, VSS is probably one of the best features Microsoft have released in the last 10 years. Since its launch this feature of the operating system have helped a lot in doing applications’ consistent backups, but most of all helped to dismiss all those dedicated agents…

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Backup di Lotus Domino per Windows usando i VMware Tools e non VSS

Luca Dell'Oca, May 15, 2013December 4, 2016

Per un responsabile della data protection, VSS è probabilmente una delle migliori funzioni che Microsoft ha introdotto negli ultimi 10 anni. A partire dalla sua introduzione questa funzione del sistema operativo ha consentito negli anni di realizzare backup consistenti degli applicativi, ma soprattutto di non dover più ricorrere a numerosi…

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Veeam Webinar: VSS

Luca Dell'Oca, May 27, 2011May 24, 2011

Se avete a che fare quotidianamente con i backup in ambiente microsoft, sapete benissimo l’importanza che riveste la tecnologia VSS. Veeam ha rilasciato qualche tempo fa un ottimo seminario a riguardo, disponibile su youtube. Se avete un’ora di tempo ve lo consiglio caldamente! Capirete in modo dettagliato come funziona VSS,…

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