BESR 8.5 Scheduled Conversion to ESX VMDK
Hi We have BESR 8.5 backing up afull recovery point once a week of out SBS 2008 server. For the rest of the week we have incrementals taken once a night. Wewould like to begin scheduling a nightly conversion to ESX VMDK so that if the primary server fails we can bring the virtual machine online with less than a day of data loss. My question is: How does the scheduled conversion work? Does it re-create the VMDK from scratch each time a conversion job is run? Or does BESR have the ability to update the VMDK with only the incremental changes after the nightly incremental? The reason I ask is that our SBS server has over 1TB of data and I'm worried that a restore time may take several days if we need to start from scratch. If anyone has experience or knows of a faster way to restore to a VM (maybe with the recovery CD?)I would be very interesting in hearing about your experiences Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated Adzee