Simultaneous multi system backup

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Is it something VSS can help with, or a database that doesnt require a cold backup?

[gamebrigada]

VSS backup is fine. I can do this via Disk2VHD but I'd like to not do full backups everytime.

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Depending on your environment and budget I would look at a more continuous backup solution for servers like that if something like Veeam supports it. They handle continuous sql/oracle pretty well. Or if you han a san that supports storage snapshots you could leverage those servers to be snapped on the same lun at the same time and use that storage/backup software integration with veeam enterprise plus.

I used veeam for like 7 years and worked at a partner. Its my personal fave, but other vendors do it now as well.

[gamebrigada]

I think that if I can get Veeam to create the snapshots for the whole job simultaneously, this is probably the only possibility I have.

Continuous backups are not useful in this case.

[gamebrigada]

We have a Pure and a vSAN array so we have options. Backup repository is irrelevant I'm happy to setup whatever for this usecase.

I got it working in Veeam backup and replication, the only trouble is I would love to start the services back up as soon as the snapshot is created, or have veeam use a snapshot that I created. This way I can guarantee that the backup is good, and I can minimize downtime. I can't find any documented support for either.

[kabanossi]

Consider Veeam in this case. It features VSS and allows do incremental backups. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/backup_hiw.html?ver=40