This is what you said David Blewett > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Scott Ruckh wrote: >>> I have tested this with all sorts of guest Virtual Machines and the >>> results are the same; bacula will crash (completely unusable) the >>> host machine. The only recovery method it to reboot the server. > > I use bacula in a similar manner, only I use LVM2 to create a snapshot > of the filesystem that the vmware image files are on. I also have bacula > use sparse file detection (which cuts the backup from 51GB [as reported > by the OS] to 33.5GB [as reported by the guest OS]). I've tested > restores of this method, and every thing seems fine. >
Unfortunately I am not using LVM2, but this does sound like an elegant alternative. Again, thanks for the idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
