Just in case anyone is curious, I finally gave up waiting for someone here to tell me how to do it, and Googled the question of Virtual to Physical. According to VMWare, it *can* be done, but it's a pain, so I think I'll go with something like Ghost 4 Linux to image the PC in question instead of virtualizing as a backup. That way, I *know* how to restore to the same or similar hardware.
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Physical to Virtual backup I did Google. My interest was to see what experts on the list were doing. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Physical to Virtual backup If you Google the subject of this email you will find a ton of resources complete with how-to's. Most of them free. One of the first hits steps you though scripting it hands off with VMware converter. _____ From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@emlogis.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Physical to Virtual backup Look at Shadowprotect from Storagecraft. I think they do something like that. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator o:713.785.0960 x290 From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Physical to Virtual backup Good morning list members! I have a physical server running a 3rd party accounting package. The vendor does NOT support their product in a virtual environment or in a cluster at this time. I am certain it would run fine in a VM, but due to our support agreement, I must continue to run it on a single server. (The database is run on a separate SQL cluster) For backup and DR purposes, I would like to take daily P2V snapshot of this single server. I am interested if anyone else is doing something similar and, if so, what you are using. Thanks, BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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