Steven Kurylo schrieb: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Greets to all of you, >> >> just before I try to reinvent the wheel: >> >> For a client I have to dump VMware-VMs with amanda, they should be shut >> down by a wrapper script (using vmware-cmd), dumped and restarted, one >> VM after the other. >> > Why would you shut down the VM before backing it up?
Because we are fearing problems? > We do a vm snapshot to a backup server. Amanda backs up the snapshot > from the backup server. And it is reliable? I agree, it's more elegant and also faster, but the VMs there are pretty important, so the first draft is to stop and start them. How does your routine look like? wrapper-script for GNU-tar triggering vmware-cmd? Using the VM-perl-modules? Thanks, Stefan
