----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Dumaresq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Zemlicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Zemlicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:57 PM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM > > >> What about the backup state option in vmware? Does this help alleviate >> your >> concerns. > > Didin't see it. I'll have to check. I'm glad to talk with people that > already work with vmware server. I'm new with useing it as a master > server. I have though guy 2 Hardware and use some sync to have a salve > server that can bu if the master go down. But this is very too costly for > our need. So at the worst case, we will run some major server VM into one > of our regular pc. > > Jonathan >> >> _____________________________ >> Stephen Zemlicka >> Integrated Computer Technologies >> PH. 608-558-5926 >> E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl >> Wilhelm Soderstrom >> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:54 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM >> >> On 09/07 12:39 , Stephen Zemlicka wrote: >>> I like the idea of backing up the vmware image. That way you have very >>> little restore time. Just copy and you're up and running. No reconfig >>> necessary. If you use rsync, shouldn't it just copy the changed data? I >>> understand files on the image might move around but majority should stay >> the >>> same and therefore the data wouldn't have to be copied for each backup. >> >> we'd like to think that, but my experience does not bear that out. that >> said, I haven't done strict scientific tests. >> >> you're right; restoring the vmware image is a very convenient thing; but >> unless it's been quiesced (i.e. shut down) you can't guarantee a >> consistent >> state. I've gotten away with restoring 'live' vmware images from backup >> (tape backup, way back when); but I wouldn't recommend it. >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Carl Soderstrom >> Systems Administrator >> Real-Time Enterprises >> www.real-time.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
