Beste Grüsse, Patrick, von Österreich nach Deutschland ;) Patrick M. Hausen schrieb:
> We install Amanda inside the VM's OS, most of the time FreeBSD. > I don't see a fundamental difference from a backup point of view > between a virtual and a "real" server. > > If you backup VMs from the outside, you are bound to copy > the virtual disk in its entirety to the backup medium at > every run, even with incrementals, because the virtual disk > file will have changed. Yes ... You are right, but I have specific needs here. This will be a very dynamic environment, with VMs created, copied, moved, and it isn't possible to install amanda to each new or copied VM (and track the IPs and hostnames and stuff ....) So I think of something like - find every vmx below /mnt/vmware - create a new DLE for each corresponding directory, if it doesn't already exist - amanda-wrapper stops, dumps and restarts every of these DLEs > I can imagine implementing your scheme with rsync's capability > to create incrementals of single files, not only of DLEs. > > With dump or tar, you are simply wasting a lot of backup media. LTO-4 changer robot, no problem so far ;) Thanks, Stefan
