Hi,
I would like to know if you do a share for each vm guest you have ? Or you can
issue PRE POST command for each file you backup ?
Jonathan
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From: therebel
To: Stephen Zemlicka
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM
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.
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[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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