Backup of virtual machines really necessary?

Hello

I have a few virtual machines running with Windows. I save the machines under windows in the form of images. From the images, I can possibly restore the entire machine or single files.

So, when my machine goes down I could create a new machine in ESXi and restore from my backup image.

Does make sense to make a parallel backup virtual machines with free solutions described in this community, because if I would back up my data twice.

Is that not wrong? What is your opinion?

Concerning

Peter

There is only one hardware requirement, in the new virtual machine u must use the hard drive of the same size or more, but not smaller than the disk of the failed computer, performance differences are few

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