On 20/02/2010 8:11 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > >> you can also stop/start the system. I am not sure if you can trigger a >> snapshot, but that may be a good solution if you can't take the >> virtual system down. >> > You can, but not in the free tools. That's the carrot for the pay stuff. > >
Assuming your are using Vmware Server 2 you can trigger a VM snapshot using vmware-vim-cmd. vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create 112 vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get 112 vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall 112 Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/