Backup Modes

VSquare currently supports the following backup modes:

Full
This is the default backup mode. A full backup is created with all the virtual disks and all the virtual machine configuration files.

SmartCopy
The SmartCopy backup will use a disk difference technology to create a full backup by only applying the differences between the current virtual disks and the previous backup disks. Depending on the backup source technology, VSquare will use a different approach depending on the backup source technology:

• VMware ESXi
  VSquare will use VMware CBT (Change Block Tracking) feature to query the current virtual disks changes and apply them to the local backup
  


• VMware ESXi (Free)
  The free VMware license does not have the necessary API to enable disk difference detection. Backups of ESXi Free virtual machines will always be full.
  


• Hyper-V
  VSquare will emulate CBT detection during backup and automatically apply only detected disk changes.
  


• VSquare Desktop Agent
  VSquare will emulate CBT detection during backup and automatically apply only detected disk changes.