KayGrid users need reliable ways to protect their VMs. This article explains how to back up and restore KayGrid VMs step by step with Vinchin Backup & Recovery. Learn simple methods for safe data management.
Updated by Nick Zhao on 2025/08/25
In this post, you will learn how to backup and restore KayGrid VM with Vinchin Backup & Recovery.
First, let's open a browser and log in Vinchin Backup server web console. Go to VM Backup > Backup page.
Step 1. Select Backup Source
Here you can click a KayGrid host and select the VM to backup. For multiple VMs on the host, you can select a group of VMs to backup to add them to the list on the right. After adding the VMs which you want to backup, click Next.
Step 2. Select Backup Destination
Select the Target Node and then select the Target Storage for the VM backup. Click Next.
Step 3. Select Backup Strategies
In Schedule, you can choose Backup as scheduled or Once-off backup. Backup as scheduled will automatically backup the selected VMs at a specific time, and Once-off backup will backup the VMs only once.
For Scheduled backup job, you can schedule Full Backup with Incremental Backup combination, Full Backup with Differential backup combination. After that, you can select to trigger the backup job daily, weekly, or monthly at a specific time.
In Data Storage Policy, you can enable Data Deduplication and Data Compression to reduce the size of backup files.
In Retention Policy, Vinchin allows you to retain backup files by the Number of Restore Points or the Number of Days.
By enabling GFS Retention, you can activate the advanced GFS Retention for your VM backups to apply long-term retention policy of some specific full restore points.
In Transmission Strategy, you can encrypt the backup data for secure data transfer.
After configuring all the backup strategies, click Next.
Step 4. Give a name to the job, review the details of the job, and Submit it.
When you need to recover data, you can restore the KayGrid VM from that backup.
VM restore is also easy. Now, let’s go to to VM Backup > Restore page
Step 1. Select Restore Point
In the list, you can see all the available restore points. Just select the KayGrid restore point you want to restore, input a name for the job, and click OK.
Step 2. Select Restore Destination
Select the Target Node and then select the Target Storage for the VM restore. Click Next.
Step 3. Select Restore Strategies
In Schedule, you can choose Restore as scheduled or Once-off Restore. Restore as scheduled will automatically restore the VMs at a specific time, and Once-off Restore will restore the VMs only once.
After configuring all recovery policies, click Next.
Step 4. Name the job, view the details, and then Submit
Once the job is created, you’ll be redirected to the job list page and the restore job will run automatically.
Click the job name to check the job progress. And the flow chart shows the real-time transmission speed and the bar under it is the job progress.
Feel free to download Vinchin Backup & Recovery with a 60-day full-featured free trial. If you have any problems during testing, our engineers will help you solve them.
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