FREE: it's totally free for personal and commercial use. FREE: self capable, will run in the hypervisor without the need of additional hardware.

FREE: can overwrite backups or create a new folder for each new backup. FREE: it is capable of using Rsync to perform differential backups, mirrored to a second ESXI box or to a local datastore. FREE: can automatically make room for your new backup in the backup device once it is full based on the full size of the device or a configurable space limit. FREE: warm backups shuts down the VM, takes a snapshot, switches it on and back up the guest. FREE: it also performs cold backups, shutting down your VM prior to the backup and turns it on when the backup has finished. FREE: performs hot backups, so your VMs will always be available.

The Pro version offers advanced features, like deduplication over VMFS, instant differential backups (no checksum wait), raising events on backup end, support for Borg Backup backends, and much more. The free version has no limitations and can backup to a datastore or to any SSH server using Rsync, by means of the Delta algorithm. We have a free version (the link above) and a commercial version called XSIBACKUP-PRO ( ) The Pro version offers post-backup data integrity certification by means of sha1 checksums and many other professional features. UPDATE : now XSIBackup free edition features deduplication and differential backup without any limitation. You should try XSIBackup, you can download it at:

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