Backup
It's really important to backup your VMs. You have multiple options, but only Xen Orchestra is both advanced, agentless, fully Open Source and officially supported (tested for all XCP-ng releases).
🛰️ Xen Orchestra
Xen Orchestra is the most advanced backup solution and 100% integrated with XCP-ng. There is many different backup options:
- Automated rolling snapshots
- Full Backup
- Full Replication
- Incremental Backup
- Incremental Replication
- Mirror backup
- XO Metadata backup
- XCP-ng Metadata backup
- Cloud enabled XO Metadata backup
And they come with different features:
- NFS, SMB, S3 compatible backup repositories
- Encryption
- Compression
- File level restore
- NBD-enabled for extra backup speed
- Rate limiting
- XO Proxy (backup remote sites without any VPN requirement)
All options are explained in the official documentation. Xen Orchestra is available as a turnkey virtual appliance, called XOA which you can deploy in a minute.
Alternatively, you can install and build it yourself from the GitHub repository.
🛣️ 3rd party solutions
There's 3rd party solutions officially compatible with XCP-ng to make VM backups. Please check our ecosystem page on the backup section.
Some popular backup solutions (like VEEAM) can be used with agents inside your VMs, while Xen Orchestra deals with VM backup.
However, you'll lose the tight integration you have between XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra, both bundled of the Vates Stack.