Critical VM Backup: How Often and How? Need Help!

Wesley

Hi everyone,
I’m looking to improve our VM backup strategy and would love to hear your thoughts.
How often do you generally recommend backing up critical VMs? Do you perform backups manually or use automated tools?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

Dan Zeng

Hi!
For our critical VMs, we recommend running daily incremental backups along with a full backup once a week.
The whole process is automated through our backup software to ensure consistency and reduce manual effort.
We’ve also enabled alerts to quickly catch and fix any issues if a backup fails.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Wesley

Thanks, Dan! Really appreciate the detailed response.
Doing daily incremental backups along with a weekly full backup sounds like a solid strategy — and the automated alerts are a great idea too.
We'll definitely take this into account as we refine our setup. 🙏🙂