Full Virtual Machine Backup

A full virtual machine backup is a backup of all the files that make up the virtual machine. These are: .vmx Virtual machine configuration .nvram VM BIOS .vmdk Virtual disk .vmsd Dictionary for snapshots and associated disk .vmss Virtual machine suspend file -Snapshot#.vmsn Virtual machine configuration of a snapshot -flat-vmdk Disk that contains the data -f001.vmdk First extend of preallocated disk split into 2gb files -s001.vmdk First extend of growable disk split into 2gb files -delta.vmdk Snapshot differences file To perform a full backup of a virtual machine (the above files) you need to run this command on the VCB Proxy Server: vcbMounter -h 192.168.1.123 -u vcbuser -p vcbpass -a name:VM1 -t fullvm -r C:\VCB-Backups\VM1-full