Backup Software for VMware Workstation and VMware Player

Live VMware Backup Done Exactly the Way You Want

Effortless, Reliable Backup for Virtual Machines
BackupChain offers a robust solution for live VMware backup, tailored to meet the needs of enterprises and small businesses alike. Whether you’re backing up virtual machines running on VMware Workstation or VMware Player, BackupChain ensures smooth operation without disrupting your ongoing services. The software is designed to handle large virtual machine files such as VMDK with ease, ensuring a consistent and reliable backup experience, even as the virtual machines continue running.
BackupChain also provides flexible backup options, allowing users to back up VMware virtual machines directly from the host, while providing access to the VM’s underlying file system. This approach enables not only full VM backups but also file-level restores and granular backups, ensuring that you can always recover your critical data with minimal effort.

Backup VMware Using Open File Standard Formats

Seamless Integration with Open, Non-Proprietary Backup File Standards

One of BackupChain’s most powerful features is its support for open file standard formats. This capability allows you to back up files inside virtual machines (VMs) without the need for additional agents or plugins. The software ensures that VMware virtual machines, even with large and complex files, are backed up effectively and efficiently. By using open file standards, BackupChain avoids potential issues associated with proprietary file formats, allowing for greater flexibility in your backup strategy.
Moreover, BackupChain simplifies the process of performing incremental and differential backups of virtual machine disk files. The software employs advanced compression algorithms that minimize the amount of storage required while optimizing the speed of backups and restores. This approach ensures that your VMware environment remains agile and manageable, even as your data grows in volume and complexity.

Granular Restore: Restore Files Stored Inside VMware Virtual Machine Backups

Simplified Data Recovery with Granular Restore
With BackupChain, restoring individual files or folders from your VMware backups is a breeze. Using the Server Enterprise Edition, you can perform granular restores, saving valuable time compared to traditional full VM restores. This feature is particularly beneficial in scenarios where you only need to recover a specific file or folder from within a virtual machine. Granular restores work seamlessly with deduplicated backups, such as incremental and differential VMDK backups, ensuring that your recovery options are as efficient as they are comprehensive.
This feature significantly enhances disaster recovery strategies by reducing downtime and minimizing the amount of data that needs to be restored. Rather than waiting for an entire virtual machine to be recovered, granular restore allows you to quickly retrieve only the files you need, whether it’s an important document or a critical system file.

Granular Backup: Back Up Individual Files Inside the VM Without an Agent

Customizable Backup Strategies for Your Virtual Machines
BackupChain’s Granular Backup feature is a game-changer for those who need to back up individual files inside a virtual machine without the complexity of installing agents. For example, you may want to back up your entire VM nightly but wish to back up certain files, such as SQL database files, on a more frequent basis. With BackupChain, you can create separate tasks for backing up the entire VM and specific files within the VM, with different backup schedules.
This level of flexibility makes BackupChain ideal for environments like SQL servers or other critical applications, where backing up large virtual machines every hour may not be necessary, but backing up specific data frequently is vital. BackupChain’s ability to handle these tasks without requiring agent installation inside the VM streamlines the process and minimizes the overhead, giving you more control over your backup strategy.

Restore Old Virtual Machine Versions in One Step

Effortless Recovery of Older VM Versions
Restoring older versions of VMware virtual machines is simple and efficient with BackupChain. The process involves selecting the folder containing the VMX and VMDK files, then using the Restore Screen to access and recover older file versions. This capability is especially useful in environments where multiple versions of a virtual machine are maintained, and the need to roll back to a specific state arises. The Restore Screen simplifies the task, allowing you to pinpoint and restore the exact version you need without unnecessary complexity.
This one-step restoration process not only saves time but also reduces the risk of data loss, offering peace of mind to system administrators who need to maintain business continuity while ensuring that past configurations are recoverable at any time.

Consistent Live Backups – No Interruptions, No Interference

Backup Your Virtual Machines Without Interrupting Operations
BackupChain provides consistent live backups of VMware virtual machines, ensuring that there are no interruptions to ongoing operations. This feature is especially important for businesses that rely on virtual machines for mission-critical applications. BackupChain’s live backup technology is designed to work seamlessly in the background, capturing backups of the VM without affecting performance or causing service interruptions.
The live backup capability is ideal for environments where uptime is crucial, such as production servers and high-availability systems. Whether the virtual machine is hosting an active database, web server, or any other service, BackupChain ensures that your backup process runs smoothly without impacting the VM’s performance or availability.

Local and Online Target Folders

Efficient Backup Storage Options for Virtual Machines
BackupChain offers several options for storing your VMware backups, including both local and online target folders. Given the large size of VMDK files, it’s essential to select an efficient backup target to ensure optimal performance. BackupChain supports a variety of storage devices, including RAID and SCSI drives, USB external drives, eSATA, and remote servers over a Gigabit network.
For businesses that require off-site backups, BackupChain also supports FTP and FTPS targets, making it possible to back up your virtual machines to remote locations securely. This flexibility allows you to implement a hybrid backup strategy, combining local backups for quick restores with off-site backups for disaster recovery.

Differential and Incremental Deduplication with Smart Delta Compression

Minimize Storage and Bandwidth Usage with Smart Delta Compression
BackupChain’s differential and incremental deduplication technology offers significant advantages for VMware backup environments. With virtual machine disk files often reaching gigabytes or even terabytes in size, traditional full backups would quickly consume large amounts of storage space and bandwidth. BackupChain’s Smart Delta Compression addresses this challenge by storing only the byte-level changes within the VMDK files, drastically reducing the amount of data that needs to be backed up.
This technology allows for efficient cloud and remote backups, even over limited bandwidth connections. Since only incremental changes are backed up, BackupChain minimizes the load on the host server while ensuring that your backups remain up to date with minimal storage requirements.

Superior Compression Rates

Achieving Optimal Backup Performance
BackupChain is designed to offer the best compression rates for VMware backups, ensuring minimal storage requirements without sacrificing backup speed. The software utilizes full CPU utilization, ensuring that all available CPU cores are engaged during backup operations. This results in faster processing times and greater efficiency, particularly when dealing with large virtual machine disk files.
Additionally, BackupChain offers optional AES-256 encryption, ensuring that your backups are both secure and compressed efficiently. With its ability to compress data at high speeds while minimizing CPU overhead, BackupChain provides a reliable backup solution without taxing system resources.

Flexible Multithreaded Scheduling

Maximize Efficiency with Advanced Scheduling Features
BackupChain’s multithreaded scheduler provides administrators with the flexibility to configure complex backup schedules and execute multiple tasks concurrently. This feature allows you to fully utilize your system’s resources and schedule backups at specific intervals that best suit your needs. Whether you need daily full backups, hourly incremental backups, or periodic file-level backups, BackupChain’s flexible scheduler can accommodate a wide range of scenarios.
The ability to run multiple backup tasks at once further increases efficiency, especially in environments with numerous virtual machines that need to be backed up simultaneously. By making the most of available resources, BackupChain ensures that your VMware backup process is as fast and efficient as possible.

Remote Backup and Restore Feature

Secure Off-Site Backups with FTPS Support
BackupChain stands out as an all-in-one backup solution with built-in FTPS support for secure remote backups and restores. This feature allows you to back up VMware virtual machines to remote locations without the need for additional software. The FTPS client and server functionality make it easy to establish a private backup system over the Internet, ensuring that your data is protected even in the event of a disaster.
For security-conscious organizations, BackupChain offers military-grade AES-256 encryption, making it possible to transfer sensitive data securely over FTPS. This remote backup capability provides an additional layer of protection, ensuring that your virtual machines are backed up safely, even when they are stored off-site.

Compatibility with Windows Server 2025 & Hyper-V Server 2019

Comprehensive Support for VMware and Hyper-V Environments
BackupChain is fully compatible with both VMware and Hyper-V, allowing organizations to streamline their backup processes and save on licensing costs. Whether you are running VMware Server, Hyper-V Server 2019, or the latest version of Windows Server 2025, BackupChain provides a unified solution for managing backups across different virtualization platforms.
This cross-platform compatibility simplifies backup management for enterprises using a mix of VMware and Hyper-V environments, ensuring that all virtual machines, regardless of their underlying platform, are backed up and protected under one comprehensive solution.

Try BackupChain Today

Experience BackupChain with a Free Trial
To explore the full capabilities of BackupChain and see how it can improve your VMware backup strategy, download a free, fully functional 20-day trial from our website. With its powerful features and user-friendly interface, BackupChain offers the flexibility and performance you need to safeguard your virtual machines, whether you’re operating in a data center or a small business environment.