Operation Manual

New Backup Task wizard, Step 1 “Select VM(s) to back up”

You can back up dynamic groups of the machines by selecting the upper level unit (e.g. ESX(i) host or

VMs folder) in the tree and moving it to the right list with the same > button. As a result, all the

machines running within this group will be automatically included in the backup list. Moreover, any

new machines created in this group will be backed up automatically by the current backup task.

You can also back up replica VMs (see the Replication section (p. 46)). For that click the show replicas

button above the VMs list and select the replica VM for backup. Note that it's not recommended to

perform replication to and backup from replica VM at the same time. Be careful while setting up the

schedules.

After you make the selection of VM(s) to back up, click Next to finish the first step and continue

further on.

7.2 When to back up

In the second step of Create backup task wizard, you should define the schedule of backing up your

virtual machines data. There are two options available – scheduling your backup, and creating a

single time backup task (“Do not schedule, run on demand”). The default value is "Create backup

every 1 week(s) on Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat at 12:00:00." Here you can change the default

value or select “Do not schedule, run on demand” which means that the backup task will not be

executed on schedule. It will be started either right after the backup task creation or can be run

manually from the Tasks view.