VMBackup proposed features

This page is used to track features and changes for VMbackup.  As the features are implemented, they are crossed off on this page.

Feel free to comment on new features you would like to see added.

  • QT/X11 GUI for setting up scheduled Virtual Machine backups
  • Better support for backing up VMware ESX 3.x virtual machines
  • Support for backing up virtual machines running under ESX 3i
  • Support to restore files from within the VM
  • Ability to backup Xen virtual machines
  • Ability to backup Qemu VMs
  • One cool feature but not necessarilly for the masses is backup to iso format in a way that the iso could be mounted much like a Live CD EasyVMX does this sorta thing it’s not especially a backup task but great for migration.
  • Logging options, possibly switching to using syslog
  • Alerting options
  • Backup expiration/rotation
  • Reporting functionality
  • Support remote backups via smb and nfs
  • Add – Help pages for the backup/restore GUI
  • Option to specify the management port when running under VMware Server 2.0
  • QT/X11 GUI for point and click backup/restore
  • Better documenation
  • Add support for VMware Fusion on Mac OSX
  • Support to backup to a directory instead of an archive file and optionally register the VMware directory with the VMware server running on the destination machine.