Sorry commands are :
PRE
vmrun pause /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx
POST
vmrun start /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx
2007/9/7, therebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> If you want a consistant backup, a not expansive method is to use pre and
> post command :
>
> PRE
> vmrun stop /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx pause
>
> Do backup
>
> POST
> vmrun stop /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx start
>
> In this way backup will be OK. But server will not be up during backup ..
>
> Marc
>
> 2007/9/7, Stephen Zemlicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > _____________________________
> > 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 11:43 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Carl Soderstrom
> > Systems Administrator
> > Real-Time Enterprises
> > www.real-time.com
> >
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