On Monday 25 June 2007 11:38, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2007, Joachim Schrod wrote: > > Nevertheless, doing backups of the VMware images from time to time > > is a good idea anyhow; so Carlos should go ahead with it. :-) > > Absolutely. > > Some Virtual machines are small enough they will fit on a DVD, but > I've found that I have to use some other disk/tape solution to > backup most VMs.
I wonder how amenable a typical VMware image file might be to gzip or bzip2 compression? I assume that those images are, for the most part, just the contents of the disk, so offhand it seems there would be ample room for compression. If you're not using the auto-expanding image mode and the virtual disk is not very full, then presumably all those zeroes ought to compress well. Of course, it would probably take a long time to run the compression, especially for bzip2, but it might be worth investigating for certain circumstances. > John Andersen Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
