----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Dumaresq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dirk Wessner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dirk Wessner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:02 PM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM > > >> Hello list! >> >> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >>> if you want easy restores of a vmware image; build some sort of >>> mechanism >>> that shuts down the vmware guest instance, then does a backup of the >>> image, >>> then starts the vmware guest again. our web developer at work does this >>> for >>> his Windows session, keeping the old copies around (bzip2'ed) in case he >>> needs to revert. you do sacrifice a lot of speed for this ease and >>> simplicity of recovery tho. >>> >> >> As far as I know, when the VMware tools are properly installed on the >> guest operating system, if you shut down the vmware server the guest >> systems are shut down gracefully before the server exits. You can >> configure this in the VM settings (Power Options or so). >> So before backing up, you could just stop vmware server and start it >> again afterwards. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dirk >> > I'll like more suspend 1 server at the time. It will be down a shorter > time. > > Jonathan > > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >> Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >> Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
