Windows Backup, and Hyper-V (Windows Backup just utilises the various VSS writers under the covers)
Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: HELP_PC [...@enter.it] Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Backing up VMWare ESX servers -- What do you use? And I would like to know if exists an imaging product that backup both host and guests in one shot. For any Virtualizer server GuidoElia HELPPC -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Inviato: martedì 14 luglio 2009 4.00 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Re: Backing up VMWare ESX servers -- What do you use? Just wanted to thank everyone for their input. Seems like most people are using ESXRanger/VRanger, so I'm off to get a newer version of it. I just wanted to make sure I'm not the only one using it if there's something new/better. Thanks again, Jon On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Richard Stovall<richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: > I think it's ESX 3.5 update 2 where there is a VSS service embedded in > the VMware tools. If you enable that feature in the tools you can > 'disable' VSS in vRanger and have the one from the tools do the VSS > work for you. Assuming of course you haven't enabled the "disable > guest quiescing" option. It's all very confusing in vRanger 3.X. The > following (provided by the ever polite and helpful Vizioncore support > folks) fleshes it out a little. > > http://supportforums.vizioncore.com/forums/thread/11626.aspx > > and > > http://supportforums.vizioncore.com/forums/3/9962/ShowThread.aspx > > Regarding the file level restore feature, there is definitely a bug in > the current version of vRanger (3.2.9.7) where the images are not > mountable in a great number of cases. There is a beta available that > supposedly fixes the problem, but nothing in production yet. (At > least this was the case a month ago before I went on vacation.) I > have not used the new 4.0 DPP product yet. I've got the license, but > no time to mess with it yet. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
