Setting up VM backup

[stanw41]

I daily build backups of two VMs. These are on a VMware disk. I want to use Syncovery to backup these up to another machine and either delete after a number of version or do the backup in a way that it is efficient on space.

Left side is VMware machine with base folder "daily" with sub-folders as machines names plus date (inside each folder is the machine files).

VMware side

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I am trying to work out the settings to do this and assumed using the special settings and versioning are the way to go.

The job is set to run daily (standard copying) but
under the special menu I'm using block level copying (with Checksums -- right?)

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with versioning

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In this sounding a sensible approach?

Thanks

[tobias]

Hello,
if the files appear in a new folder every day, then none of these block level or Synthetic backup settings will have any effect. The files will be seen as new files every time, and therefore no block level copying will work.

You probably just need to keep a certain number of backups, and each will be completely separate and independent.

But maybe it can be done with some special tricks. Can you show the content of the daily folders, including file names and file sizes? Does each contain a complete backup?