Very informative Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Wessner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM
> Hello Jonathan, > > I found in the vmware documenation that there is a command line tool > that you can use to start/stop single VMs: vmware-cmd > Have a look at this link pointing to the VMware docs: > > http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/admin/manage_vmbackup_onhost_gsx.html#1002716 > > I haven't done this, but maybe this is useful for you? > > Dirk > > Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: >>> 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/
