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copy VM without shutdown

I have one VM on the ESX server.We have Veeam and Vcenter too.

I want to copy that VM without shutdown vm ? is it possible?

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i want to copy to my computer for future use.

My goal: Vm is Exchange server.Unfortunality i cant shutdown it and wait 2 hours or  more copy process ended.
I tried with Veeam but comes error out.I think Veeam copy Procces makes a Temparary snapshoot till copy is ended.Error :out of space.

any idea?
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Are you running out of space on the datastore or is your block size on the datastore too small to encompass your vmdk and snapshot size?
yes, i did NEW DATASTORE(1tb and 4mb blocksize). I thought after a Backup copy i have ,i can migrate VM to new datastore.But unfortunatily i have no Backup copy and before me they did not thought about that.
Migration make me worry ,if something hapen during migration to new datastore or after migration cant start again VM. what i will then?
For that i try to get one copy after that migration.

someone has experience a problem when tried to new datastore migration? If i am not wrong migration process  like CUT option in windows.during process erase files from old datastore and paste them to new datastore.If s..th hapeens.Then .... NO BACKUP
:(
Can i do something with SSH +FTP (winscp)? i can ftp with winscp to esx server and copy that vm files to my local computer even vm is on?
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