How to backup and restore KVM VMs with vProtect | Storware Academy #2

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Need to backup KVM virtual machines? Learn how easily you can protect VMs running in KVM environments with vProtect.

VMs running on standalone KVM servers can be protected in many different ways using vProtect. In this tutorial video you will learn how to protect (backup and restore) virtual machines with vProtect - snapshot-based software. Video contains instructions on how to, step-by-step, backup and restore selected VMs, individual files or applications. Additionally, you will learn about the main features and capabilities of vProtect.

Table of Contents

00:26 - Server and data movers - 2 main components of vProtect
01:30 - How to add a new hypervisor and what to do next?
03:08 - Virtual environments section and simple backup task
03:30 - Multiple backup destination
04:36 - Backup process explained
06:12 - How to configure the backup policy and schedule for backup tasks
09:45 - How to restore your backups
15:22 - Summary

Summarizing, Storware vProtect provides a crash-consistent backup of VMs running in KVM environments. With an easy management interface, you are able to quickly set up protection and store backups in several different backup providers.
- Full backup of QCOW2 or LVM-based VMs
- VM disk exclusion
- File-level restore with mountable backups

In general, vProtect features best in class backup tools for open virtual machines, containers and cloud. It is able to backup virtual machines (VMs) running on variety of platforms: Citrix Hypervisor, Red Hat Virtualization, RHV, oVirt, KVM, Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, Kubernetes as well as Openshift, OpenStack and AWS EC2. It provides high-speed recovery, snapshot based backup strategy, backup multiple virtualization platforms to multiple backup providers.

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