On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:21, Justin Best wrote: > > A couple of months ago there was some discussion about running > BackupPC inside the new VMWare Server product. Has anyone tried this > yet? Any tips? > > My reason for asking -- I've got a Windows Server that's not anywhere > near capacity. I was going to put a BackupPC box out there on the > network, but the I figured I could save a few bucks on hardware and > some floor space by just loading VMWare Server onto the Windows Server > machine and making BackupPC run inside a Virtual Machine. > > Has anyone played with this type setup enough to tell me whether or > not this strikes them as A Bad Idea?
I haven't done it, but have played with the VMware Server program enough to expect it to work with some loss of performance that may or may not be enough to matter. The current version is a beta that has some extra debugging enabled so performance may improve in the release version. You might also consider reversing the situation: install Linux on the base machine so you can run backuppc directly and move your underused windows services to a virtual machine. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
