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Great thanks again Andrew :)
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Hi I was going to restore a Production VM with VM due to a config error/problem we cant resolve and want to go to a rollback.<br />
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Before I did so I thought - &quot;bright spark&quot; :( &nbsp;- take a clone of the VM. - Now it came to mind that I may have just destroyed all snapshots that the veeam backup relies on. ? - Is this how Veeam works - will cloning destroy all snapshots/backups - I tried to cancel the clone but too late it says disks consolidated - I'm hoping I am misunderstanding how Veeam works<br />
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The Veeam is done by our service provider.
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Hi I was going to restore a Production VM with VM due to a config error/problem we cant resolve and want to go to a rollback.

Before I did so I thought - "bright spark" :(  - take a clone of the VM. - Now it came to mind that I may have just destroyed all snapshots that the veeam backup relies on. ? - Is this how Veeam works - will cloning destroy all snapshots/backups - I tried to cancel the clone but too late it says disks consolidated - I'm hoping I am misunderstanding how Veeam works

The Veeam is done by our service provider.

Veeam backups - Does cloning a VM consolidate/remove &quot;ALL&quot; of the Veeam backups ?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

Veeam® has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam develops backup, disaster recovery and virtualization management software for VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments. The company focuses on products that help with virtualized workloads, reduce downtime, and ensure the system Availability required by service-level agreements.

Veeam backups - Does cloning a VM consolidate/remove &quot;ALL&quot; of the Veeam backups ?

Veeam backups - Does cloning a VM consolidate/remove "ALL" of the Veeam backups ?