----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Dumaresq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:42 PM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM > > >> On 09/07 11:36 , Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I start playing with VMware-server. I want to be able to backup the VM >>> image with backuppc. I would like to know also if someone here have >>> already deal with this ? >> >> Best thing to do is to just set up backups of each of the VMs as if they >> were independent boxes. that way you won't be backing up the VM image, >> which >> is a giant monolithic file which is constantly changing. >> >> don't back up the vmware disk images, unless there's no other way to do >> it.< > > That was the first intention. But i don't wan tto spend 1 day to get my > server up if something happen. Like reinstalling the OS etc. > > The command srcipt in the condfig file looks good. > > I see in some forum , that guys take snapshot before backing up the vm > image. I don't know realy why theu do this. > > JOnathan >> >> -- >> 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/
