+8Hello,
What is the best solution for VMware VSA backup, use of incremental or differential backups?
currently we use incremental and synthetic fulls, is there any improvement for restores to use differentials backups instead of incremental?
regards Juergen
Best answer by Scott Moseman
Hello,
What is the best solution for VMware VSA backup, use of incremental or differential backups?
currently we use incremental and synthetic fulls, is there any improvement for restores to use differentials backups instead of incremental?
regards Juergen
If you are backing up to disk or cloud, there’s no reason for using differential. There is not going to be any improvement in restore performance.
Thanks,
Scott
+23Hi there,
Well, on my side I do not use diff backups for VM backups.
Only Incremental+synthfulls and once a month at least a real Full. Or, even only full when data change a lot inside the VM.
Most of them are using advanced block tracking techniques like CBT or so, so it’s quite fast to perform increments or full.
It really depends on the size of your VMs, their setup (how many vmdks and their size), their change rate, but also your recovery plan.
Maybe the most important improvement for recovery is to use indexing v2 for VSA, that allows multiple streams restores instead of single stream for v1. The more vmdks your VM has, the longer it would take, as it would be sequential in v1. (this is a very trivial shortcut, I know 
)
Laurent.
+18Hello,
What is the best solution for VMware VSA backup, use of incremental or differential backups?
currently we use incremental and synthetic fulls, is there any improvement for restores to use differentials backups instead of incremental?
regards Juergen
If you are backing up to disk or cloud, there’s no reason for using differential. There is not going to be any improvement in restore performance.
Thanks,
Scott
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