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dkennard
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6 years ago

Best solution to back up Citrix Xen Server

IHAC a large customer moving from VMWare to Citrix.

I have scoured all NBU documents to find support for Zen Server.

The best I see are 2015 or older posts that simply talk about treating the vm's as physical and only doing file level restores.

If that's the case, I can assume that these backups will dedup?

Saw another post that noted these need Enterprise Client license due to configuring each VM as a SnapShot Client.

Help appreciated.

  • Yes treating the VMs as plain client backups will dedupe, and if your physical Xen Server is host a bit on the puny side then be sure to disable client side dedupe for those particular clients.