Can vmProtect run concurrent backup jobs?
Hello.
I'm a new user of vmProtect. I am wondering if it can run multiple backup jobs at the same time. I have 3 VM datastores and each one has a handful of virtual machines.
I'd like to create 3 jobs, one for each datastore. Right now I have these;
vm1-sata (serial ata storage for 3 virtual machines)
vm2-sas (15k rpm sas raid 5 for a good handful of vm's)
vm3-sas (our newest addition of 15k rpm sas raid 5 that most machines migrated to)
So say job 1 starts at 7:30 PM EST and backs up 10 machines on vm3-sas. Can I start another job at 9:30 PM EST and back up all the machines that live on vm2-sas even though the first job will not be completed?
Thanks!

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Hi,
We are looking at changing our current single backup job to individual jobs for each VM. In total 5-6 VM's on 2x hosts.
Will the appliance/vmware host wait should there be too much activity?
Thanks
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Hello chi-tld,
Thank you for your question.
As per Acronis vmProtect 8 System Requirements, Acronis vmProtect 8 could perform parallel tasks (such as parallel backup tasks, etc) of up to 5 tasks at a time. If more than 5 tasks are run simultaneously, the Agent will process only the first 5 tasks, while the other tasks will remain in the queue with the "waiting" status. So if there are more than 5 tasks running parallel, Virtual Appliance will try consume all the allocated resources in order to perform the 5 tasks simultaneously.
Let me know if you have additional questions.
Thank you
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Just an additional question to this, it the backup engine multi threaded when running a single backup job. For example I have a single task backing up 15 vm's, will the server use all resources to compress the archives etc
Thanks
Nigel
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Just an additional question to this, it the backup engine multi threaded when running a single backup job. For example I have a single task backing up 15 vm's, will the server use all resources to compress the archives etc
Thanks
Nigel
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Just an additional question to this, it the backup engine multi threaded when running a single backup job. For example I have a single task backing up 15 vm's, will the server use all resources to compress the archives etc
Thanks
Nigel
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Nigel Newsom wrote:Just an additional question to this, it the backup engine multi threaded when running a single backup job. For example I have a single task backing up 15 vm's, will the server use all resources to compress the archives etc
Thanks
Nigel
Oops sorry Chrome went all laggy
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That WAS how we had it configured, but it didn't meet our recovery and server requirements, so split up all the VM's into single jobs over a longer period of time. Seems to be working fine for now on v8 build 8128.
One issue we do have is when we delete the recovery points the tib files are not reducing in size. Apparently v8184 fixes this...
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Nigel Newsom wrote:Just an additional question to this, it the backup engine multi threaded when running a single backup job. For example I have a single task backing up 15 vm's, will the server use all resources to compress the archives etc
Thanks
Nigel
Yes it will use all CPU resources. I have seen this by changing the compression level and getting 100% usage of 4 vCPUs when on Maximum.
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