That's not obvious enough for me. Stepping outside the VMware world for a moment, what the user is proposing is totally normal. We do it in the virtualized storage world all the time. Stop the app, snap the image, start the app, then back it up. I don't want to leave the app down the entire time I'm backing up.
A powered off machine does have a state. RAM is empty and the drives are static. They could snapshot that. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > > Does anyone know the reason why you cannot snapshot powered off > > machines? > > > Hum, only the obvious answer pops to mind: because there is no state > to snapshot at all!
