Totally agree...I only use vRanger in a non-automated way. Always manually shut down the server and do the backup. It's only a periodic thing because, like you said, we backup the day-to-day changes with our normal agent based backup solution and do vRanger images periodically for DR purposes only.
- Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESX backup solutions? Not say any of are unaware of this, but there are *many* who are oblivious to the concept of a hotbackup. My opinion is these are not 100% reliable. A hotbackup is very much like pulling the cord out of the wall on a running server and imaging it. Its dirty. Reality is that works a lot of time with a journaling FS like NTFS but it sure as heck doesn’t *always* work. When you restore from a hotbackup, you are restoring from a power loss type scenario. If that acceptable to you, by all means do hotbackups ☺ I prefer to image (properly) servers and use an agent to compliment dynamic data as it changes. This causes me to have to power down some machines when certain non reproducible changes occur but that’s my style… ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
