We had some Veeam people give a presentation on Veeam backup and recovery, and to my surprise it was stated that Veeam will not back up snapshot data with the virtual machines running on VMWAre ESXi etc. Our engineers work heavily with snapshots over the course of weeks or months, where a test VM may have several snapshots associated with it. If I cannot back up snapshots with the VM, then restoring the VM to an unknown state no longer allows the test engineer to know at what state the VM is in. All the work done for regression testing is apparently thrown away when the backup occurs. My question is, is there another VM backup product that DOES back up snapshots in addition to the current state of the VM? Am I missing something? Does VMWare provide something that backs up snapshots along with the current state of the VM?
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