Hot-add: A Different Term in Veeam B&R
I always wonder what Hot-add means in Veeam’s term as it’s always mentioned in their forum, now I understand after reading the blog post, but again I never use virtual appliance mode as it’s for small enviornment say if you have 30 or less VM to backup.
Hot-add – This is frequently used when referring to virtual appliance mode backups within Veeam Backup & Replication. Basically, once the virtual machine backup is underway; the associated VMDK files are added dynamically to the Veeam backup server. This dynamic procedure can only happen when the virtual machine has a snapshot in place, and then the VMDK files of the source virtual machine are disconnected from the Veeam backup server once the backup steps are completed. Further, this option is only available when Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on a virtual machine. Veeam Backup & Replication has supported Hot-add mode since version 4, released in 2009.
