13 Backup / Restore VMware Virtual Machines

This section describes how to backup and restore virtual machine running on VMware.

The following steps are performed during a backup job:

Connection from the backup client to the backup server is established.
Download the server file list from the backup server.
Connection from the backup client to the hypervisor is established.
Commands are issued to the hypervisor to create snapshot of the virtual machine for backup
Server and local file lists are compared to determine which file will be uploaded.
Delta file is generated for modified file (if necessary). In VDDK mode, the delta file will be generated by the hypervisor.
Existing, and snapshot data are encrypted, compressed, and streamed to the backup server.
Commands are issued to the hypervisor to remove snapshot created for backup.
Backup completed successfully.