This seems intriguing, but nontrivial to setup... http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html
In this case restore may be faster. Or, if you have an alternate server available, restore concurrent with messing with above. Good luck! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a > half-dead ESXi box....I'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one > last try.... > > Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from > the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere > else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because > I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy > to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's > no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind. > > I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask > too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the > old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-) > > If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a > long, long time.... > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
