How to backup and restore XCP-ng and Citrix hypervisor (XenServer) | Storware Academy

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Storware provides a crash-consistent backup of VMs running in Citrix Hypervisor environments and open-source XCP-ng. With an easy management interface, you are able to quickly set up protection and store backups in several different backup providers.

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00:45 - vProtect architecture and backup strategies
05:24 - vProtect demo - backup and recovery jobs

Features:
• VM-level backup and protection
• Full backups (support from 6.5+)
• Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Incremental backup APIs (support from 7.3+)
• Option to backup only selected VM disks
• File-level restore
• VM auto-grouping based on regular expressions and tags
• Snapshot consistent technology (quiesced snapshots for Citrix Hypervisor)
• pre/post snapshot remore command execution

XCP-ng is a fully open-source alternative to the XenServer hypervisor. It is a solution 100% compatible with the project supervised by Citrix. Although XCP-ng works exactly like Citrix Xenserver, it has no restrictions. Every bit of XCP-ng is open-source. So you can freely use all the advantages of this robust and fast-growing virtualization, powered by a vast community of individuals and companies. And now you can easily protect XCP-ng VMs infrastructure with compatible and tested backup & recovery solution – vProtect.

As virtual machines are prone to multiple disasters it is a good practice to use trusted data protection tools. With vProtect deployed in your XCP-ng infrastructure, you can make full/incremental backup, snapshots, automate backup processes and recovery tests, and many, many more.

Storware (vProtect) supports 2 backup strategies for Citrix XenServer.

• Backup strategy 1 - XVA-based
In this strategy VM is exported as a single XVA bundle containing all of the data. Incremental backup is also supported. Data is transferred directly from XenServer API without the need to setup anything on the hosts.

• Backup strategy 2 - Changed-Block Tracking
In this strategy VM is exported using XenServer API (full backup) and Network Block Device service (NBD, incremental backups) on the XenServer hosts. CBT feature in Citrix XenServer 7.3+ may require additional license. Result backup has separate files for each disk + metadata, so you have option to exclude specific drives as well. Notice, that for full backups only you can still used this strategy without CBT enabled on the hypervisor.

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